John O. Jordan
Autor de The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Obras de John O. Jordan
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1941
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- professor (UC Santa Cruz)
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Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
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- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 101
- Popularidad
- #188,710
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 17
- Idiomas
- 1
There can still be the occasional worthy part, even if the whole isn't up to much. I enjoyed Susan R. Horton's "Were They Having Fun Yet?: Victorian Optical Gadgetry, Modernist Selves," which looked at various aspects of the Victorian obsession with looking at looking and watching their watching; Jennifer M. Green's "'The Right Thing in the Right Place': P. H. Emerson and the Picturesque Photograph," a fascinating discussion of how the photographer Peter Henry Emerson hired models to create his images of peasant life because the models were better at looking like peasants than actual peasants; Ronald R. Thomas's examination of the emergence of the detective in fiction in "Making Darkness Visible: Capturing the Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction"; and Margaret Homans's "Victoria's Sovereign Obedience: Portraits of the Queen as Wife and Mother," which shows how the appearance of limited political power expanded the Queen's symbolic power for the nation.… (más)