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The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism /

With their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Whether publicly displayed or serving as the basis of a written genre, these rough drawings played a central role in the cultural ferment of the age by persu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sha, Richard C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Visual Sketch in Britain
  • 2. "Keeping Them Out of Harm's Way": Sketching, Female Accomplishments, and the Shaping of Gender in Britain
  • 3. Perverting Female Propriety: Women's Verbal Sketches as Proper Display of Perversion
  • 4. Sketching, Courtship, and Women's Novels
  • 5. Resisting Monumentality: Wordsworth, Byron, and the Poetic Sketch
  • Appendix: Select Verbal and Visual Sketches Published in the United Kingdom, 1758-1850
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index