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Immersion in Print: Design, Sensory Reading, and Spatial Imaginaries in Nineteenth-Century Chorography

Immersion in Print: Design, Sensory Reading, and Spatial Imaginaries in Nineteenth-Century Chorography

Briggs, Molly C.

Hardcover

Series: Appearances - Studies in Visual Research, Book 6

General World History

ISBN10: 3119142107
ISBN13: 9783119142106
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 277
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Nineteenth-century pictorial place maps invited viewers to understand geography through practical and imaginative exploration. Circular examples combined plan view, pictorial perspective, and cartographic projection in graphics that positioned viewers within arguments about the global significance of particular places. Unlike visual distortions that required correction with optical tools, these artifacts were designed to be read and understood through learned period habits of looking and handling. Their call to haptic interaction activated a synthesis of vision and touch that produced felt sensations of presence in place. Early application of these strategies in military and scientific imaging advanced political and epistemic claims about how territory should be seen, interpreted, and governed. Printed orientation plans to panoramic exhibitions popularized this graphic strategy with mass audiences at the turn of the nineteenth century. This approach was then deployed in a variety of other ephemera including travel guides, advertisements, educational games, political posters, and fire-spotting discs.

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