TY - BOOK

T1 - Portraiture and British gothic fiction

T2 - the rise of picture identification, 1764-1835

AU - Elliott, Kamilla

PY - 2012/11

Y1 - 2012/11

N2 - This book probes how, in late eighteenth-century Britain, as Enlightenment philosophy and scientific writings eroded traditional beliefs, as radicals and reformers challenged political structures, as riots and revolutions proliferated, as new technologies, industrialization, rising populations, and increased social and geographic mobility changed professional, social, and familial identities, Gothic fiction intensified and sensationalized mass identity crises for a mass audience. Drawing on contemporaneous works on portraiture, literature, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, history, heraldry, law, education, science, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, physiognomy, and travel literature, as well as other literary genres, the monograph examines how Gothic fiction mythologized the spread of picture identification from the titled, wealthy, and celebrated (as well as the infamous) to the ordinary, middling ranks of British society, and the changing theories and practices of identification that fostered, accompanied, and followed it.

AB - This book probes how, in late eighteenth-century Britain, as Enlightenment philosophy and scientific writings eroded traditional beliefs, as radicals and reformers challenged political structures, as riots and revolutions proliferated, as new technologies, industrialization, rising populations, and increased social and geographic mobility changed professional, social, and familial identities, Gothic fiction intensified and sensationalized mass identity crises for a mass audience. Drawing on contemporaneous works on portraiture, literature, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, history, heraldry, law, education, science, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, physiognomy, and travel literature, as well as other literary genres, the monograph examines how Gothic fiction mythologized the spread of picture identification from the titled, wealthy, and celebrated (as well as the infamous) to the ordinary, middling ranks of British society, and the changing theories and practices of identification that fostered, accompanied, and followed it.

M3 - Monograph

SN - 9781421407173

BT - Portraiture and British gothic fiction

PB - Johns Hopkins University Press

CY - Baltimore, Md.

ER -