Living Forms: Romantics and the Monumental FigureBased 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. |
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Contents
CHAPTER ONE | 13 |
CHAPTER TWO | 35 |
CHAPTER THREE | 59 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 83 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 111 |
CHAPTER SIX | 129 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 147 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 165 |
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| Title | Living Forms: Romantics and the Monumental Figure SUNY Series, Studies in the Lo SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Author | Bruce Haley |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0791455610, 9780791455616 |
| Length | 307 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / European Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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