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Article: Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum.(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2004
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Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum. By ERIC GIDAL. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 284 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8387-5493-7.
Poetic Exhibitions offers a reading of 'the pleasures of the British Museum from its foundation in 1753 to the completion of its current architectural residence and the consolidation of its institutional identity in the 1850s' (p. 16). However, 'this is not a traditional history of the British Museum' (p. 24), 'a purely ideological critique of the institution's representations of national incorporation and imperial ascendancy', or 'a ...