Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Seeing the Big Picture

Kingstone, Helen

Springer International Publishing AG

01/2023

275

Dura

Inglês

9783031156830

15 a 20 dias

503

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1. Introduction: Overviews of the Present.- Part I: Panoramic Perspective.- 2. Contemporary History in Panoramas.- 3. Panoramic Perspective in Histories of the French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle Versus Archibald Alison.- 4. The Napoleonic Wars from Near and Far: Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major and The Dynasts.- Part II Transition: Between Panoramas and Compilations.- 5. Photography Remediated in the Crimean War: Illustration, Exhibition and Collection.- Part III: Big data: Compilations of Contemporaneity.- 6. An Index to the Scale of Modernity: Big Data and The Review of Reviews.- 7. Ephemeral Collective Biography: Men of the Time (1852-99).- 8. Collective Biography as Monument? The Dictionary of National Biography.- 9. Conclusions: Overview Through Immersion.
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Romanticism;Victorian Literature;Epistemology;Modernity;Dictionary of National Biography;Visual art;Archives;History of photography;Remediation;Sociology of knowledge