Author: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Complete Works of Martin F. Tupper in Four Volumes
Author: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art
Author: John Sartain
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art
Author: Caroline Matilda Kirkland
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Playful Visions
Author: Meredith A. Bak
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262538717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the optical toys of the nineteenth century were the “new media” of their era, teaching children to be discerning consumers of media—and also provoking anxieties similar to contemporary worries about children's screen time. Bak shows that optical toys—which produced visual effects ranging from a moving image to the illusion of depth—established and reinforced a new understanding of vision as an interpretive process. At the same time, the expansion of the middle class as well as education and labor reforms contributed to a new notion of childhood as a time of innocence and play. Modern media culture and the emergence of modern Western childhood are thus deeply interconnected. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bak discusses, among other things, the circulation of optical toys, and the wide visibility gained by their appearance as printed templates and textual descriptions in periodicals; expanding conceptions of literacy, which came to include visual acuity; and how optical play allowed children to exercise a sense of visual mastery. She examines optical toys alongside related visual technologies including chromolithography—which inspired both chromatic delight and chromophobia. Finally, considering the contemporary use of optical toys in advertising, education, and art, Bak analyzes the endurance of nineteenth-century visual paradigms.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262538717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the optical toys of the nineteenth century were the “new media” of their era, teaching children to be discerning consumers of media—and also provoking anxieties similar to contemporary worries about children's screen time. Bak shows that optical toys—which produced visual effects ranging from a moving image to the illusion of depth—established and reinforced a new understanding of vision as an interpretive process. At the same time, the expansion of the middle class as well as education and labor reforms contributed to a new notion of childhood as a time of innocence and play. Modern media culture and the emergence of modern Western childhood are thus deeply interconnected. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bak discusses, among other things, the circulation of optical toys, and the wide visibility gained by their appearance as printed templates and textual descriptions in periodicals; expanding conceptions of literacy, which came to include visual acuity; and how optical play allowed children to exercise a sense of visual mastery. She examines optical toys alongside related visual technologies including chromolithography—which inspired both chromatic delight and chromophobia. Finally, considering the contemporary use of optical toys in advertising, education, and art, Bak analyzes the endurance of nineteenth-century visual paradigms.
The U.S. Democratic Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Publishers' Circular
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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The Literary World
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The United States Democratic Review
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.