Diverse and wide-ranging, the essays collected here examine nineteenth-century visual culture as European culture redefined itself, embracing political and social change yet expressing tensions and anxieties about modernity. Scholars of history, art, the history of science and literature combine forces to investigate the role of visual representation by looking at changing ideas expressed in representations of science, technology, politics, and culture in advertising, art, periodicals, and novels.
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Diverse and wide-ranging, the essays collected here examine nineteenth-century visual culture as European culture redefined itself, embracing political and social change yet expressing tensions and anxieties about modernity. Scholars of history, art, the history of science and literature combine forces to investigate the role of visual representation by looking at changing ideas expressed in representations of science, technology, politics, and culture in advertising, art, periodicals, and novels.
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