| 书目名称 | Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
| 副标题 | Seeing the Big Pictu |
| 编辑 | Helen Kingstone |
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| 概述 | First comparison of the origins and influences of panoramas and collective biography, both popular in the 19th century.Shows how these two forms offered overview of the scale of modernity where conven |
| 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
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| 描述 | 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 |
| 出版日期 | Book 2022 |
| 关键词 | Romanticism; Victorian Literature; Epistemology; Modernity; Dictionary of National Biography; Visual art; |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15684-7 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-15686-1 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-15684-7Series ISSN 2634-6494 Series E-ISSN 2634-6508 |
| issn_series | 2634-6494 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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