A Pedagogy of Observation - Nineteenth-Century Panoramas, German Literature, and Reading Culture

This interdisciplinary study considers how panorama entertainments-large-scale painted canvases of historical scenes and distant landscapes-captured the German literary imagination.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reading Panoramas
Chapter 2: A Domestic Spectacle: Panorama Entertainments and Fashion Journals
Chapter 3: The Panorama and the Limits of Representation
Chapter 4: The Urban Apartment as Panorama: E.T.A. Hoffmann's My Cousin's Corner Window
Chapter 5: The Photographic Sketch and Panoramic Observation
Epilogue: The Renewed Promise of Panoramas
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Vance Byrd is associate professor of German at Grinnell College.

Product details

• Authors: Vance Byrd
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2017
• EAN: 9781611488548
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-854-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 507 g
• Series: New Studies in the Age of Goethe; New Studies in the Age of Goet
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies