Panoramas and compilations in nineteenth-century Britain : seeing the big picture
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Panoramas and compilations in nineteenth-century Britain : seeing the big picture
（Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2022
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Panoramas and compilations in 19th century Britain : seeing the big picture
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-271) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 Degrees views previously associated with the Romantic period) and compilations (big data projects previously associated with the Victorian fin de siecle) 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.
目次
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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