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: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

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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 German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor:

Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Zielgruppe

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, Kathrin

Fachgebiete

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

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.