{"product_id":"imagining-the-gallery-the-social-body-of-british-romanticism-9780804751247","title":"Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christopher Rovee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Romantic period has long been associated with the sublime landscape. In \u003ci\u003eImagining the Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 at Pemberley in Austen's \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e to the printed portraits of working men and women that were published in books; from the eighty-plus paintings of the Poet Laureate William Wordsworth to the gigantic living portrait that is Victor Frankenstein's Monster, \u003ci\u003eImagining the Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e reveals portraiture as an enormously influential cultural discourse that helped to remake the body politic in the image of the private individual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47613224059031,"sku":"9780804751247","price":8193.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804751247.webp?v=1775083545","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/imagining-the-gallery-the-social-body-of-british-romanticism-9780804751247","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}