Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum

by Eric Gidal

Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum offers an extensive interdisciplinary study of the relationship between British Romantic poetry and the rise of national museum culture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In a simultaneously theoretical and historical analysis, it studies a range of poetry and aesthetic philosophy in relation to the first hundred years of the British Museum, from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161148149X
• ISBN13: 9781611481495
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 284 Pages