Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764-1835 by Kamilla Elliott - 2012-10-31

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Hardcover. New. New casewrapped hardcover. 8vo. (6 x 1.08 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes bibliography and an index, 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Examples from British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show how portraits became a new mode of identity for the middle class. Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott, our current practices of "picture identification" (driver's licenses, passports, and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic… Read More

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