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100 1 $aGidal, Eric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001036427
245 10 $aPoetic exhibitions :$bromantic aesthetics and the pleasures of the British Museum /$cEric Gidal.
260 $aLewisburg, [Pa.] :$bBucknell University Press ;$aLondon ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $a284 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 270-279) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Pleasures of the British Museum --$g2.$tWordsworth in the Museum: A Romantic Art of Memory --$g3.$tComposition and Alienation: The National Reception of the Elgin Marbles --$g4.$tEkphrasis and Empire: Wordsworth's Egyptian Maid --$g5.$tBabel's Curse and the Museum's Burden: Shelley, Rossetti, and the Exhibition of Alterity.
520 1 $a"Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum offers an extensive interdisciplinary study of the relation between British Romantic poetry and the rise of national museum culture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
520 8 $aIn 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 its establishment in the 1750s to the completion of its current edifice in the 1850s. It thereby provides a sequence of aesthetic reflections on the various social, cultural, and imaginative challenges posed by this novel institution.
520 8 $aIn the process of tracing poetic and critical responses to the museum and its collections, Poem Exhibitions simultaneously demonstrates the impact of nationalist ideologies and scientific discourse on formal and thematic developments in Romantic poetry and aesthetics.".
520 8 $a"Poetic Exhibitions seek both to enrich the study of modern museums with the insights of literary theory and to establish a more practical connection between Romanticism and its attendant ideologies. By reading the aesthetic reflections of such writers as Joseph Addison, William Hogarth, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in relation to the exhibitionary plans and popular guidebooks for the early museum, Gidal demonstrates the connections between abstract theory and cultural politics.
520 8 $aBy reflecting upon the collections and excavations of Sir Hans Sloane, Lord Elgin, Charles Townley, and Austen Henry Layard in relation to their institutional acquisition, he explores the poetics of national incorporation. By comparing the works of such poets as Mark Akenside, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti alongside promotions and receptions of the national museum, he illustrates the connections between lyric expression and material exhibition.
520 8 $aThroughout the book, he argues that the operative dialogue between aesthetics and ideology enables rather than obstructs critical reflection."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103201
650 0 $aAntiquities in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008400
650 0 $aArchaeological museums and collections$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129898
650 0 $aArt and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009115672
600 10 $aWordsworth, William,$d1770-1850$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aAesthetics, British$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001449
610 20 $aBritish Museum$xHistory.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zEngland.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111002
650 0 $aElgin marbles.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85042569
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR575.A55$iG53 2001