Fashioning faces the portraitive mode in British romanticism

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.H. : Hanover [N.H.] : University of New Hampshire Press ; University Press of New England 2009
Edition:1st ed
Series:Becoming modern
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Table of 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