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- Living Forms: Romantics and the Monumental Figure
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
summary
Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century’s fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge’s Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt’s essays on portraits, Keats’s poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron’s Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans’s verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley’s poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands. Haley argues that in what has been called the “museum age,” Romantics sought aesthetically to frame these figures as “living forms,” mental images capable of realization in alternate modes or forms.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Chapter 1: Imaginary Museum
- pp. 13-33
- Chapter 10: Keats’s Temples and Shrines
- pp. 219-252
- Conclusion
- pp. 253-258
- Works Cited
- pp. 281-297
- Index [Includes Back Cover]
- pp. 299-307
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791487679
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
56752128
Pages
317
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No