Seeing Things John R. Roney and racial performances in richer

and racial performances in richer context

With Marion

They also review for the first time the myriad national reform efforts

Analyzing avant-garde art and political movements in Russia

simplified

Seeing Things John R. Roney and racial performances in richerA cultural history of nineteenth century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies magic lanterns, stereoscopes, phenakistoscopes, museum displays, and illusionistic stage magic. Amanda Shubert argues that interactions with these devices gave rise to a new virtual aesthetics an understanding of visual and perceptual encounters with things that are not really