Helen Kingstone

Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Seeing the Big Picture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing AG
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9783031156830
• ISBN-10: 3031156838
• Artikelnr.: 64546222

Autorenporträt

Helen Kingstone is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her first book, Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. She co-chaired a Wellcome Trust-funded Humanities and Social Sciences network on 'Generations' from 2019 to 2021, and has been a co-director of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Generations at the University of Surrey.

Inhaltsangabe

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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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.

Rezensionen

"Kingstone's study effectively builds on the work of previous scholars - particularly regarding the nineteenth-century panorama - by tying the panoramic perspective ... to the notion of writing one's history. Scholars of the visual and material will find Kingstone's study a timely intervention in the field, offering a new perspective on how the Victorians saw themselves and their history." (Michelle Reynolds, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 24 (1), 2024)

In Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing the Big Picture, Helen Kingstone adds to the rich history of scholarship concerning 'panoramic perspective' ... . the emphasis of Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain on the generation of overview through immersion develops an invaluable approach to the nineteenth-century s writing and comprehension of history ... . (Joe Kember, Victorian Studies, Vol. 67 (1), 2024)

Kingstone s study effectively builds on the work of previous scholars particularly regarding the nineteenth-century panorama by tying the panoramic perspective to the notion of writing one s history. Scholars of the visual and material will find Kingstone s study a timely intervention in the field, offering a new perspective on how the Victorians saw themselves and their history. (Michelle Reynolds, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 24 (1), 2024)