Visualizing the Past
            
                Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter; de Gruyter
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9783110282825
Description: Visual media had a decisive impact on how the past was perceived in 19th-century Germany. The panorama, photography, and book illustrations can portray the past spatially. By investigating the visual vocabulary of different historicist genres (historical maps, historiography and historical novels), this volume expands an understanding of German historicist culture as a multi-medial phenomenon. It demonstrates that the image works as a powerful tool to propagate the ideology of German imperialism, but also can critically reflect the political agendas of national historicism.