The Modern Dream of Order

Victoria, Photography and the Social Imagination

Eva Ehninger author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Publishing:16th Jun '25

£56.50

This title is due to be published on 16th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Modern Dream of Order cover

This book redefines the history of modernity by focusing on how people used photography to affirm continuity and social stability during a time defined by rapid transition in all every field of life. By the early 1860s, commercial portrait photography had become an everyday experience. Through their daily reception and interpretation, photographs were utilized to construct and consolidate social relations and to imagine social order visually. Queen Victoria’s ubiquitous photographic presence in private and communal contexts demonstrates how the new visual media re-enforced the power of conventional concepts of order and stability. Critical reflection on this mechanism is crucial to understanding current media practices as well.

ISBN: 9783111124551

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

304 pages