Seeing History: Illustration, Poetic Drama, and the National Past

Dustin Frazier Wood

doi:10.1017/9781108348829.004

Seeing History: Illustration, Poetic Drama, and the National Past

Dustin Frazier Wood

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This chapter examines the ways in which illustrations of history and drama interacted with one another in the eighteenth century, and the effects that interaction had on the shaping of historiographical, dramatic and national narratives. The chapter uses as its case study illustrations of the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon queen Elfrida, the subject of numerous histories, dramas and history paintings in the period c1750-c.1800.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Romanticism and Illustration
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	70-93
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108348829
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348829.004
Publication status	Published - Apr 2019

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Dustin Frazier Wood
- School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Centre for Research in Society, Culture, and Social Change
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