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The Shock of the Real - Romanticism and Visual Culture,1760-1860 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2001)
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The Shock of the Real - Romanticism and Visual Culture,1760-1860 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2001)
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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, from the West End stage to the
tourist-filled Scottish Highlands, from the panoramas of Leicester
Square to the photography studios of Second Empire Paris. But in
presenting the relation between word and image in the late Georgian
age as a form of culture war, the author also proposes an
alternative account of Romantic aesthetic ideology - as a reaction
not against the rationalism of the Enlightenment but against the
visual media age being born.
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