The Spectacular Past
Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France
Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical tec…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2983-6
- EAN: 9781501729836
- Produktnummer: 28011413
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 14 halftones
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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