Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041356904
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041356904
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827
Author: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author: VariousPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523835294
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This work was compiled by Various Authors and despite its age continues to be popular with modern readers
Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki HuhtamoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author: Thomas ByerlyMirror of Literature, Amusement, & Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue
Author: Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Author: James L. MachorPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography
Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description