The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture,1760-1860

by Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349624586
• ISBN13: 9781349624584
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"