Maurer Visualizing the Past

The Power of the Image in German Historicism
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-028293-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Reihe: ISSN

Zielgruppe

Scholars (History, Literary Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies), Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, Kathrin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction;11
1.1;Visual Culture;13
1.2;The Rise of German Historicism;18
1.3;Historicism as an Academic Discipline;20
1.4;Aesthetic Historicism;22
1.5;Historicism as a Cultural Phenomenon;24
1.6;Narrative and the Poetics of History;25
1.7;Visual Historicism;29
1.8;Spatial Configurations;31
2;Part I: Leopold von Ranke and the Panorama;37
2.1;Historical Ocularism;38
2.1.1;The Panorama as a Mass Medium;40
2.1.2;The Panoramic Eye of the Historian;43
2.1.3;Omniscient Writing;48
2.1.4;Visual Reality Effects;54
2.2;The Aesthetics of the Picturesque;59
2.2.1;Tourism and Travel Literature;59
2.2.2;Ida von Hahn-Hahn’s Literary Travelogues;60
2.2.3;The Oriental Panorama;63
2.2.4;The Colonial Panorama;68
2.3;Historical Landscapes — 61 Alpinism;71
2.3.1;The Mountain Panorama;73
2.4;Historical Environmentalism;75
2.5;Ranke and the Panorama: Concluding Remarks;80
3;Part II: Jacob Burckhardt and Photography;83
3.1;Jacob Burckhardt’s Photo Collection;84
3.1.1;Photograph Shopping Tours;90
3.1.2;The Photo Collection;93
3.1.3;Mapping the Past;96
3.1.4;Typology;100
3.1.5;Serialisation;103
3.1.6;The Picture Atlas;105
3.2;The Photographic Gaze in Jacob Burckhardt’s Cicerone (1855);107
3.2.1;Roland Barthes’s Theory of Photography;110
3.2.2;Adalbert Stifter’s Photographic Aesthetics;114
3.2.3;Living Monuments;116
3.2.4;Photography as Cultural Memory;121
4;Part III: Illustrated History Books;125
4.1;Franz Kugler and Adolph Menzel’s History of Frederick the Great (1842);128
4.1.1;Wood Engraving: The Revolution for Text and Image;132
4.1.2;Bourgeois Spacializing;135
4.1.3;Geographical Space and Landscape;146
4.2;Illustrating Prussian and Colonial History;155
4.2.1;Handbooks of Prussian History;155
4.2.2;Editions de Luxe: Museums of the Past;162
4.2.3;Illustrated Books on Colonial History;167
4.2.4;Samoa: Images of the Exotic “Other”;175
5;Part IV: Historical Cartography;183
5.1;Mapping Europe;183
5.1.1;Cartography and Construction;183
5.1.2;Historical Mapping;187
5.1.3;Christian Kruse’s Historical Atlas: Bird’s Eye Views on History;191
5.1.4;Text and Image Relationships;196
5.2;Historical School-Atlases;199
5.2.1;Mapping Prussia for School Children;199
5.2.2;F. W. Putzger’s School-Atlas;200
5.2.3;The Construction of National Unity;203
5.3;Historical Cartography of Imperialism and Colonialism;208
5.3.1;Gustav Droysen’s Atlas of Military History;208
5.3.2;Mapping Wars;210
5.3.3;Geopolitics;217
5.3.4;Colonial Historical Maps;220
5.3.5;Territorial Expansion;225
6;Conclusion;227
7;List of Illustrations;235
8;Bibliography;237
9;Index of Names;253

Über Autor(innen)

Kathrin Maurer, University of Southern Denmark.

Kathrin Maurer, University of Southern Denmark.