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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: Visual Culture in the Victorian Mediascape
1. Character Flat, Zany, Grotesque: Caricature and the Politics of Character
Early-Victorian Caricature and Personhood
The Political Grotesque: Bodies of the People
Punch: The London Charivari
Blood Sports: Urban Character and Cockney Masculinity
Physiognomy and the New City Types
Pickwick’s Caricatures: Comedy, Violence, Servitude
Going Viral: Character as Commodity
On Minor Aesthetics
2. Realism Realism’s War Pictures: Reality Effects in the Illustrated Newspaper
Crimea: Modern War, Media War
Reading the Illustrated Newspaper
Descriptive Realism_ Surface and Map in the Valley of Death
Authentic Realism_ Eyewitnessing and the Special Correspondent
Everyday Realism_ War Labor in the Trenches
Conventional Realism_ Amputees, Nurses, and other War Types
George Eliot’s Realist War Novel
Our War: War Realism Today
3. Illustration Orients of the Self: Bible Illustration and the Victorian World Picture
Machine-Made Aura
Theorizing Illustration: Enlightening, Expanding, Remaking
Victorian Bibles: Commodity, History, Palimpsest, Collage
Heterotopias of Time: Archaeology, the Fragment, the Nation-State
Sublime Sword: The Bible as Liberal Epic
Realism and the Biblical Body
Race, Jewishness, Orientalism, Aura
The Persistence of Illustration: Holy Land Experience
4. Sensation Cartomania: Sensation, Celebrity, and the Photographed Woman
Making Sensation
Cartes de visite and Mass Portrait Photography
The Girl of the Period
Ghost, Copy, Self: The Woman in White
The Actress, the Diva, the New Public Face
Queen Victoria’s Iconic Visibility
Whiteness and Others: Sensations of Race
Star Culture in Photographic Time
The Technosexual Woman
Sensations in the New Media Commons
5. Picturesque The Picturesque in the Stereoscope: Nature, Touch, Time
You Are There: Stereoscopy’s Deep View
Technologies of the Picturesque
Prosthetic Eye in the Haptic Landscape
Revisiting Wordsworth’s Virtual Landscape
Ornament and Illusion: Gothic History
Stereoscopic Politics and the Global Picturesque
Tourism, Postcards, and the Kodak Moment
6. Decadence Consuming Decadence: Advertising and the Art Poster
Visual Cultures of Decadence
Poster History: The Language of the Walls
The Street as Art Gallery
Aubrey Beardsley’s Japanee-Rossetti Girl
Art Poster as Decadent Symbol: The Mobile and Degenerate Art
Philosophies of the Decadent Commodity
Surrealism, Dream, and the Arts of Suggestion
Poster Pantomime: The Theater of the Self
Avant-Gardism and Irony in the Modern Advertisement
Conclusion: Cinema in 1896
Bibliography
Index
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