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

Alan Rawes, Eric Gidal

The Yearbook of English Studies · 2004 · 10 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

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. 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.