Panoramas and compilations in nineteenth-century Britain : seeing the big picture / Helen Kingstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingstone, Helen, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Great Britain--Civilization--19th century--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--19th century--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 275 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Contents:

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 (185299)

8. Collective Biography as Monument? The Dictionary of National Biography

9. Conclusions: Overview Through Immersion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kingstone, Helen. Panoramas and compilations in nineteenth-century Britain.

ISBN:

9783031156847

3031156846

Publisher Number:

99992949431

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.