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Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction : The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764-1835 /
Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money; the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits; and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Theory and/of Picture Identification
- The Politics of Picture Identification
- The Age of Portraiture and the Portraiture of Politics
- Matriarchal versus Patriarchal Picture Identification
- Portraits, Progeny, Iconolatry, and Iconoclasm
- Identifying Pictures
- Pictures Identifying
- Iconism and the Aesthetics of Gothic Fiction
- Desiring Picture Identification
- Fearing Picture Identification.