Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Visualizing the Victorians -- Chapter 2: Seeing Is (Not) Believing: Photography, Magic Lanterns and Virtual Realities -- The Frenzy of the Visible -- The Rematerialization of Imagery -- Sally Mann: The Angel of Uncertainty -- The Narcissistic Gaze -- The Auratic Object -- The Image Surface -- That-Has-Been -- Who Wants to Talk About Slavery? -- That-Has-Been-Long-Ago -- Ambiguity and Materiality -- Mat Collishaw: Projections of the Past -- The Magic Lantern -- Pepper's Ghost -- Panoramic Phantasmagoria -- The Panoptical Dungeon -- Raising Ghosts -- Stereoscopic Immersion -- Echoes of the Past -- Invocation as Method -- Stimulating Views -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Animal Body Remade: Bones, Feathers, Furs and Fairies -- A Labouring Aesthetic -- Contemporary Taxidermy -- Kate MccGwire and Alastair Mackie: Reclaiming Nature -- Polly Morgan: Sculpting the 'Real' -- Death and Ethics -- Assemblage and Narrative -- Surface and Spectacle -- Simulated Skins -- Illusion and Allusion -- Tessa Farmer: Fairy Mania -- Collecting and Chance -- Making and Place -- Narrative and Storytelling -- Survival and Cruelty -- Display and Mediation -- Preservation and Classification -- Miniaturization and Observation -- The Fairies and Their World -- A Truth Stranger Than Fiction -- The Grotesque and the Freak -- The Trickster and Transgression -- The Return of the Fairies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Unnatural Histories: Forgotten Objects, Narratives and Lives -- The Heyday of Natural History -- The Narrative of History |