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The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860
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The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860 Hardcover - 2001

by WOOD, Gillen D'Arcy

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New York: Palgrave, 2001. First. hardcover. fine/very good(+). Illustrated.ix + 273pp., 12mo, black cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper small closed tear upper rear corner. New York: Palgrave, (2001). First edition.<br/><br/>
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  • Title The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860
  • Author WOOD, Gillen D'Arcy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 273
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave, New York
  • Date 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 271405
  • ISBN 9780312226541 / 0312226543
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.84 x 0.94 in (21.64 x 14.83 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Romanticism in art, Arts, Modern - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00051483
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.034

From the publisher

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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The shock experience of modernity, as defined in my introduction, derives from the perceived realism of popular visual-cultural phenomena.

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 208

About the author

GILLEN D'ARCY WOOD is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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