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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Elliott, Kamilla, 1957-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.