دانلود کتاب Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing the Big Picture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

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Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Overviews of the Present
Big Data and Distance
Memory and the Contemporary
Methodology and Outline of the Book
Part I: Panoramic Perspective
Chapter 2: Contemporary History in Panoramas
Panoramas of Contemporary History
Narrative Through Paratexts
Panoramic Overview Through Immersion
Conclusions
Chapter 3: Panoramic Perspective in Histories of the French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle Versus Archibald Alison
Temporal Overview
Social History
Conclusions
CHAPTER 4: The Napoleonic Wars from Near and Far: Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet-Major and The Dynasts
Proximity and Distance
We Are All Contemporary Historians
Napoleon
Conclusions
Part II: Transition: Between Panoramas and Compilations
CHAPTER 5: Photography Remediated in the Crimean War: Illustration, Exhibition and Collection
Photography and Panoramas in the Crimean War
Compilations of Photography
Conclusions
Part III: Big Data: Compilations of Contemporaneity
chapter 6: An Index to the Scale of Modernity: Big Data Compilations and the Review of Reviews
A Brief History of Nineteenth-Century Compilation
Big Data and Compilations
The Review of Reviews: A Compilation of Contemporary History
Innovative Compilation Practices in Review of Reviews
Conclusions
chapter 7: Ephemeral Collective Biography in Men of the Time (1852–99)
What Was Men of the Time?
Whom to Select?
How to Be Superseded
Reception and Usage
Conclusions
chapter 8: Collective Biography as Monument? The Dictionary of National Biography
Why So Many Nineteenth-Century Lives?
Challenge 1: Whom to Include?
Challenge 2: Size and Scope
Challenge 3: Office Politics
Challenge 4: Auto/Biography and Personal Knowledge Remediated
Conclusions
chapter 9: Conclusions: Overview Through Immersion
From Panoramas to Compilations
Remediation and Intermediality
Trust, Big Data and the Big Picture
Bibliography
Index