Romanticism And The Museum

Romanticism And The Museum Aims To Establish The Museum - Like The Ruin Or Alpine Landscape - As One Of The Most Productive Sites For Romantic Authors' Thinking. It Argues That Public Museums Were Integral To Britains Understanding Of Itself As A Nation Confronting The Challenges Of The French Revolution. This Monograph Takes Four Inter-related Literary Case Studies To Trace How Romantic-era Authors Mediated Potentially Controversial Ideas Through Museum Artefacts And Settings; Itnbsp;explores The Fuction Of Thenbsp;museumnbsp;in Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, And In Literary Periodicals Featuring Byron And Horace Smith.