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

ISBN: 1349624586

ISBN13: 9781349624584

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

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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...

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