"This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history. . . . It traces the particular ways in which objects stepped into the lives of romantic collectors, and also the ways in which the objects moved on." from the IntroductionIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become caught up in the collecting...
"This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwel...
The theatre scholar s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe s account of tracingthe long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons.Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the methodology and the pleasures of historical research. Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine
During her lifetime (1755 1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We...
The theatre scholar s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented t...