Books about PORTRAIT MINIATURES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART.

Books about American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Books about American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection

Using a wide array of evidence drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, letters, and examples of hairwork, Love Entwined traces the widespread popularity of the craft from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief