Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820.

XIV, 363 p.: Ill. Sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar / a good and clean copy. - Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART 1 1. THE AESTHETICS OF ICONOCLASM: SWIFT AND GRAY Introduction: The Aesthetics of Making English Iconoclasm “Suppose me dead”: Swift’s Verses and Gray’s Elegy 2. THE AESTHETICS OF GEORGIC RENEWAL: POPE Georgie Farming and Ovidian Metamorphosis The Unabused Image of Memory Aestheticizing the Stigma The Popean Other 3. THE AESTHETICS OF REVOLUTION/RESTORATION: BYRON AND WORDSWORTH The Body Politic of Lords Rochester and Byron The Aesthetics of Gleaning in Don Juan Wordsworthian Restoration PART II 4. THE AESTHETICS OF MODERNITY: HOGARTH The Sleeping Congregation Remaking the Classical Canon Feminizing the Hero The “Love of Pursuit” 5. THE AESTHETICS OF MOURNING: WRIGHT AND ROUBILIAC The Empty Tomb The Woman on the Tombs tone 6. THE AESTHETICS OF POSSESSION: REYNOLDS, STUBBS, CONSTABLE, AND OTHERS Labor Aestheticized—Painting Possessed Portrait and Landscape: Zoffany and Gainsborough Reynolds’s Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue Stubbs’s Hambletonian Constable’s White Horse NOTES INDEX. ISBN 9780813514406