Moving Books/Moving Images: Optical Recreations and Children's Publishing 1800-1900
Optical shows and devices played a key role in nineteenth-century popular culture. Panoramas, dioramas, peepshows and magic lanterns were a widespread form of domestic and public recreation. The growth of optical recreations as a leisure activity parallels that of popular publishing, and this essay...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2007-10-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/463 |