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Conjuring the Real - The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Paperback)
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Conjuring the Real - The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Paperback)
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In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the
nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical
consciousness, a period that saw the birth of modern
historiography, a profusion of historical novels and paintings, and
the widespread production of historical plays. Historical
buildings, in themselves already of intense interest to people of
the day, also found their way into the multiplying cultural forms
as concrete presences anchoring a novelist's, poet's, painter's,
or, eventually, filmmaker's vision of the past. In recent years a
number of blockbuster films have used historically significant
buildings as filming locations because buildings can concretely
bring a former era or fictional world closer to contemporary
viewers. "Conjuring the Real" traces the genealogy of this
representational role of architecture, going back through the
history of film and then further in literature, art, and theater.
The contributors examine the ways in which authors, artists, and
stage managers used complex depictions of buildings to feed and
shape the audience's historical imagination. How can we understand
the significance of architecture, not through its original design
and construction but through the ways in which the public
experiences, perceives, and understands it? The contributors pursue
this question through the ideas of secondary portrayers of
historical buildings, such as writers and artists, and then through
the responses of those who read and view these creations.
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