BIBFRAME Work

Title

Seeing things

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Shubert, Amanda, 1988- (author)

Subject

• Visual communication--Great Britain--History--19th century (LCSH)
• English fiction--19th century--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Mass media and art--History--19th century (LCSH)
• Arts, Victorian (LCSH)
• Aesthetics, Modern--19th century (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Literary criticism (LCGFT)

Language

• eng

Classification

• LCC: PR871 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
• DDC: 823.809 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"This book tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical media. It argues that the period of 1830-1900 saw the emergence of virtual aesthetics-an aesthetics of visual and perceptual encounters with things that were not really there."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction. What was the virtual? -- Magic panic: the pedagogy of disenchantment -- The mirror of ink: realism, Orientalism, and vision at a distance -- Mountains of light: the Koh-i-Noor at the great Exhibition -- Recalled to life: phantasmagoria as the history of the French Revolution -- Spinning in place: trapped in the moving picture machine -- Epilogue. Arrival of a train.

Authorized Access Point

Shubert, Amanda, 1988-. Seeing things

Geographic Coverage

• Great Britain

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:46:04.594320+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24147457

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc