Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing the Big Picture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Overviews of the Present
	Big Data and Distance
	Memory and the Contemporary
	Methodology and Outline of the Book
Part I: Panoramic Perspective
	Chapter 2: Contemporary History in Panoramas
		Panoramas of Contemporary History
		Narrative Through Paratexts
		Panoramic Overview Through Immersion
		Conclusions
	Chapter 3: Panoramic Perspective in Histories of the French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle Versus Archibald Alison
		Temporal Overview
		Social History
		Conclusions
	CHAPTER 4: The Napoleonic Wars from Near and Far: Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet-Major and The Dynasts
		Proximity and Distance
		We Are All Contemporary Historians
		Napoleon
		Conclusions
Part II: Transition: Between Panoramas and Compilations
CHAPTER 5: Photography Remediated in the Crimean War: Illustration, Exhibition and Collection
	Photography and Panoramas in the Crimean War
	Compilations of Photography
	Conclusions
Part III: Big Data: Compilations of Contemporaneity
chapter 6: An Index to the Scale of Modernity: Big Data Compilations and the Review of Reviews
	A Brief History of Nineteenth-Century Compilation
	Big Data and Compilations
	The Review of Reviews: A Compilation of Contemporary History
	Innovative Compilation Practices in Review of Reviews
	Conclusions
chapter 7: Ephemeral Collective Biography in Men of the Time (1852–99)
	What Was Men of the Time?
	Whom to Select?
	How to Be Superseded
	Reception and Usage
	Conclusions
chapter 8: Collective Biography as Monument? The Dictionary of National Biography
	Why So Many Nineteenth-Century Lives?
	Challenge 1: Whom to Include?
	Challenge 2: Size and Scope
	Challenge 3: Office Politics
	Challenge 4: Auto/Biography and Personal Knowledge Remediated
	Conclusions
chapter 9: Conclusions: Overview Through Immersion
	From Panoramas to Compilations
	Remediation and Intermediality
	Trust, Big Data and the Big Picture
Bibliography
Index