Before Photography: German Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Issn, 29)

Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the best aspects of interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance our understanding of the production, dissemination, and consumption of visual media prior to the predominance of photographic reproduction. By setting these examples against the backdrop of demographic, educational, political, commercial, scientific, and industrial shifts in Central Europe, these essays reveal the diverse ways that innovation in visual culture affected literature, philosophy, journalism, the history of perception, exhibition culture, and the representation of nature and human life in both print and material culture in local, national, transnational, and global contexts. Acknowledgments Contents Introduction: Before Photography Part 1: Ways of Seeing Ways of Seeing Ballooning as a Technology of Seeing in Jean Paul’s “Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch” (1801) Through the Eyepiece and What Visual Satire Found There Enacting the Past: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Periodicals and Painted Panoramas Visual Cultures of Popular Anatomy Exhibition: The Role of Visitor Environment in Shaping the Impact of Public Health Education Part 2: Materials and Media Materials and Media Cut-Ups on the Edges of the Photographic Century Printed Pilgrimage: Spiritual Labyrinths in the German-American Home Arc of the Anemone: Modeling Nature from the Wunderkammer to the Warenwelt The Traveling Cliché: Circulation and Fixity in Engraved Representations of Ethnographic “Others” Part 3: Image and Text Image and Text Image, Language, Science: Hieroglyphs and the Romantic Quest for Primordial Truth A Poetics of Scaling: Adalbert Stifter and the Measures of Nature Around 1850 Adventure from Concentrate: Visual Interventions in German Youth Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales Epilogue Scans, Databases, and Apps: Using Twenty-First-Century Technology to Study Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Contributors Bibliography Index The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span all periods of German and German-speaking lands and cultures from the local to the global, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines - history, musicology, art history, anthropology, religious studies, media studies, political theory, literary and cultural studies, among others - and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to The Nineteenth Century Witnessed A Proliferation Of New Technologies, Devices, And Print Processes That Provided Audiences With Access To More Visual Material Than Ever Before. The Essays In This Volume Show How Innovations Before The Predominance O