Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 2

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 2

Author: Laurie Garrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1040128807

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The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.


Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 1

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 1

Author: Laurie Garrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1040128963

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The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.


Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5

Author: Laurie Garrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1040128971

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The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.


Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 4

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 4

Author: Laurie Garrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1040129110

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The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.


Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 3

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 3

Author: Laurie Garrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1040128629

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The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.


Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: Jonathan Potter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-22

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 3319897373

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This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped the way people conceptualised and articulated visual experience. In doing so, the book reconsiders literary and non-fiction works by well-known authors including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, G.H. Lewes, Max Nordau, Herbert Spencer, and Joseph Conrad, as well as shedding light on less-known works drawn from the periodical press. By revealing the discourses that formed around visual technologies, the book challenges and builds upon existing scholarship to provide a powerful new model by which to understand how the Victorians experienced, conceptualised, and wrote about vision.


Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: Helen Kingstone

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-06

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 3031156846

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This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual models of overview: the panorama and the compilation. Both models claimed to offer a holistic picture of the present moment, but took very different approaches. This book shows that panoramas (360° views previously associated with the Romantic period) and compilations (big data projects previously associated with the Victorian fin de siècle) are intertwined, relevant across the entire century, and often remediated, making them crucial lenses through which to view a broad range of genre and forms. It brings together interdisciplinary research materials belonging to different period silos to create new understandings of how nineteenth-century audiences dealt with information overload. It argues for a new politics of distance: one that recognizes the value of immersing oneself in a situation, event or phenomenon, but which also does not chastise us for trying to see the big picture. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature, history, visual culture and information studies.


The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

Author: Philip R. Stone

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 1137475668

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This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and practices. Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines ‘real-world’ viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of ‘heritage that hurts’. The handbook adopts a progressive and thematic approach, including critical accounts of dark tourism history, dark tourism philosophy and theory, dark tourism in society and culture, dark tourism and heritage landscapes, the ‘dark tourist’ experience, and the business of dark tourism. The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in aspects of memorialisation and morality in sociology, death studies, history, geography, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, business management, museology and heritage tourism studies, politics, religious studies, and anthropology.


Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald

Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald

Author: Teresa Strong-Wilson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1000817180

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This book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald, mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture, to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination and destruction. Moving beyond overly instrumentalist and reductive approaches, the authors combine disciplines in a scholarly fashion to encourage readers to stretch their understandings of currere. The chapters exemplify important, timely and complicated conversations centred on ethical response and responsibility, in order to imagine a more just and aesthetically experienced world. In the analysis of BILDUNG as human formation, the book illuminates the pertinent lessons to be learned from the works of Sebald and provokes further investigations into the questions of memory, grief, and limits of language. Through its juxtaposition of curriculum and architecture, and using the prose of Sebald as a prism, the book revitalizes questions about education and ethics, probes the unsettling of complacency, and enables conversation around difficult knowledge and ethical responsibility, as well as offering hope and resolve. An important intervention in standard approaches to understanding currere, this book provides essential context for scholars and educators with interests in the history of education, curriculum architectural education and practice studies, memory studies, narrative research, Sebaldian studies, and educational philosophy.


Before Photography

Before Photography

Author: Kirsten Belgum

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 3110696622

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Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the best aspects of interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance our understanding of the production, dissemination, and consumption of visual media prior to the predominance of photographic reproduction. By setting these examples against the backdrop of demographic, educational, political, commercial, scientific, and industrial shifts in Central Europe, these essays reveal the diverse ways that innovation in visual culture affected literature, philosophy, journalism, the history of perception, exhibition culture, and the representation of nature and human life in both print and material culture in local, national, transnational, and global contexts.