Overview
- 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 conventional historiography could not
- Brings the media theory concept of ‘remediation’ to bear on forms that have been previously seen in isolation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transition: Between Panoramas and Compilations
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Front Matter
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Big Data: Compilations of Contemporaneity
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Back Matter
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Book Subtitle: Seeing the Big Picture
Authors: Helen Kingstone
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15684-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15683-0Published: 07 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15686-1Published: 08 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15684-7Published: 06 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 275
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Audio-Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, History of the Book