Wax Coquettes
Elizabeth Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the Nineteenth-Century Travelling Waxwork Exhibition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Harris (0000-0003-4708-0936, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 373-389 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.40.3.373 |
| OpenAlex | W4239386198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper traces the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century production and exhibition of a waxwork figure of a literary heroine—one based on a real-life figure—as well as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's deployment of it, in order to assess how she was perceived in the popular imaginary
Art · Art history · Exhibition · Literature · Order (exchange · Psychoanalysis · The Imaginary · American and British Literature Analysis · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |