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Seeing Things
- Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture
Engelsk
Bogcover for Seeing Things af Amanda Shubert, 9781501784941
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Engelsk
Sider:
252
ISBN-13:
9781501784941
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1501784943
Udg. Dato:
15 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
15 nov 2025
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Seeing Things

- Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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A cultural history of nineteenth-century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies - magic lanterns, stereoscopes, phenakistoscopes, museum displays, and illusionistic stage magic. Amanda Shubert argues that interactions with these devices gave rise to a new virtual aesthetics - an understanding of visual and perceptual encounters with things that are not really there. The popularization of Victorian optical media redefined visuality as a rational mode of spectatorship that taught audiences to distinguish illusion from reality. As an aesthetic expression of a civilizational ideal that defined the capacity to see but not believe, to be entertained without being deceived, it became a sign of western supremacy. By tracing the development of virtual aesthetics through nineteenth-century writings, from the novels of George Eliot and Charles Dickens to popular science writing and imperial travelogues, Seeing Things recovers a formative period of technological and literary innovation to explain how optical media not only anticipated cinema but became a paradigmatic media aesthetic of western modernity.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
252
ISBN-13:
9781501784941
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1501784943
Udg. Dato:
15 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
15 nov 2025
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