Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith.

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Emma Rosalind Peacocke completed her doctorate at Carleton University. Her publications include articles in the European Romantic Review and Thomas Moore: Texts, Contexts, Hypertext. She has held a Huntington Junior Fellowship, and a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship.

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List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Changing the Subject: Aesthetic Displacement, Museum Display, and the French Revolution in The Prelude 2. Facing History: Galleries and Portraits in Waverley's Historiography 3. Reframing the National Imagination in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington 4. Carving Out the Public Sphere: Romantic Literary Periodicals and the Elgin Marbles Epilogue Bibliography Index