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Fashioning faces : the portraitive mode in British romanticism
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Fashioning faces : the portraitive mode in British romanticism / Elizabeth A. Fay.
ISBN
9781584657781 (cloth : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, 2010.
Physical Description
323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 13, 2010
Series
Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. The portraitive mode. Wordsworth's self-portrait
Taste, fashionable consumption, and congruence
Heightened impressions : imagination, desire, and identity
Ch. 2. Making faces. Legible bodies
Seeing, consumption, and strategies of space
Painted figures and Plutarch's heirs
Reading reproduction
Bodies in time
Ch. 3. Consuming portraits. A new socius : Josiah Wedgwood and Rudolph Ackermann
Miniatures : Richard Cosway and John Boydell
Facing history
Ch. 4. Practicing aesthetics. Aesthetics, taste, and the collection
Collecting fetishes
House museums
Instituting the portrait
Ch. 5. Living portraits. Reflexive staging, fashionability, and travel practice
Mary Robinson, acting the self
Byronic travel and the theater of the self
Consumable subjects : Manfred, Sappho, and fame.
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