Adventure from Concentrate: Visual Interventions in German Youth Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Before Photography 1
5. Part 1: Ways of Seeing
6. Ways of Seeing 15
7. Ballooning as a Technology of Seeing in Jean Paul’s “Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch” (1801) 17
8. Through the Eyepiece and What Visual Satire Found There 39
9. Enacting the Past: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Periodicals and Painted Panoramas 65
10. Visual Cultures of Popular Anatomy Exhibition: The Role of Visitor Environment in Shaping the Impact of Public Health Education 95
11. Part 2: Materials and Media
12. Materials and Media 127
13. Cut-Ups on the Edges of the Photographic Century 129
14. Printed Pilgrimage: Spiritual Labyrinths in the German-American Home 157
15. Arc of the Anemone: Modeling Nature from the Wunderkammer to the Warenwelt 181
16. The Traveling Cliché: Circulation and Fixity in Engraved Representations of Ethnographic “Others” 205
17. Part 3: Image and Text
18. Image and Text 241
19. Image, Language, Science: Hieroglyphs and the Romantic Quest for Primordial Truth 243
20. A Poetics of Scaling: Adalbert Stifter and the Measures of Nature Around 1850 267
21. Adventure from Concentrate: Visual Interventions in German Youth Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales 293
22. Epilogue
23. Scans, Databases, and Apps: Using Twenty-First-Century Technology to Study Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture 323
24. Contributors 347
25. Bibliography 351
26. Index 379