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The Visual Worlds of Life Writing - (Eighteenth-Century Worlds) by Kerstin Maria Pahl (Paperback)

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  • An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Early modern life writing extended far beyond the written word.
  • Author(s): Kerstin Maria Pahl
  • 312 Pages
  • History, Modern
  • Series Name: Eighteenth-Century Worlds

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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

Early modern life writing extended far beyond the written word. People were painted, drawn, and sculpted; their biographies were illustrated, their pictures inscribed, and their signatures considered akin to self-portraits.

The Visual Worlds of Life Writing explores representations of individuals in the visual and literary culture of early Enlightenment England. At its centre are portraits and biographies, the most popular artistic and literary genres, which navigated concepts of character, identity, likeness, and difference, while increasingly staking a claim to aesthetic excellence. As potent cultural products on the art and print market, they were also key instruments of social formation at a time of nation-building, indispensable for the making of political culture and the public sphere.

Surveying the splendid diversity of portrayals - from painting and sculpture to frontispiece portraits and book illustrations, as well as micrographic and calligraphic portraits - The Visual Worlds of Life Writing reconstructs how individuality and collectivity were fashioned across different media. A thorough reassessment of visual culture's interplay with biographical practice, the book offers an analysis of the rhetorics of portraiture and life writing, a historical account of their sister arts tradition, and an inquiry into the social function of profling people.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .85 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 312
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Modern
Series Title: Eighteenth-Century Worlds
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Theme: 18th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Kerstin Maria Pahl
Language: English
Street Date: February 4, 2025
TCIN: 1001851305
UPC: 9781802074567
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-0539
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.85 inches length x 6.14 inches width x 9.21 inches height
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