Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing the Big Picture

by Helen Kingstone

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031156862
• ISBN13: 9783031156861
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"