Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism

by Christopher Rovee

The Romantic period has long been associated with the sublime landscape. In Imagining the Gallery, we learn that it was also the age of the portrait. Rovee reads the rise of portraiture in the Romantic period as an index of a massive reimagining of the British social body. Cultural institutions such as art galleries, he argues, are bastions of conservatism as well as dynamic spaces for envisioning a new political order. From the family gallery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751242
• ISBN13: 9780804751247
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"