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The Shock of the Real. Romanticism and Visual Culture,1760-1860.
G. Wood
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Paperback. "The Shock of the Real" examines the growth of visual media and entertainment in the Romantic age through the eyes of its most famous writers. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; DSB; DSC; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, ... Read more
Already in the century before photography's emergence as a mass medium, a diverse popular visual culture had risen to challenge the British literary establishment. The bourgeois fashion for new visual media - from prints and illustrated books to theatrical spectacles and panoramas - rejected high. Romantic concepts of original genius and the sublime in favor of mass-produced images and the thrill of realistic effects. In response, the literary elite declared the new visual media an offense to Romantic idealism. 'Simulations of nature,' Coleridge declared, are 'loathsome' and 'disgusting.' The Shock of the Real offers a tour of Romantic visual culture, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349624584
SKU
V9781349624584
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About G. Wood
GILLEN D'ARCY WOOD is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Reviews for The Shock of the Real. Romanticism and Visual Culture,1760-1860.
'As well-written and thoughtful as it is broad in scope, the book should be required reading...' - Bradford Mudge, The Wordsworth Circle