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A pedagogy of observation : nineteenth-century panoramas, German literature, and reading culture / Vance Byrd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byrd, Vance L., author.
- Series:
- New studies in the age of Goethe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--19th century--Criticism and interpretation.
- German literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary study considers how panorama entertainments-large-scale painted canvases of historical scenes and distant landscapes-captured the German literary imagination.
- Contents:
- Reading Panoramas
- A Domestic Spectacle: Panorama Entertainments and Fashion Journals
- The Panorama and the Limits of Representation
- The Urban Apartment as Panorama: E.T.A. Hoffmann's "My Cousin's Corner Window"
- The Photographic Sketch and Panoramic Observation
- Epilogue: The Renewed Promise of panoramas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1611488540
- 9781611488548
- OCLC:
- 995287736
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