10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERISTREPHIC»
Discover the use of
peristrephic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
peristrephic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from ...
'Peristrephic' was a new word, perhaps coined by the Marshalls. According to the
Oxford English Dictionary, it means 'turning round, revolving, rotatory' (Altick, The
Shows of London, 201). Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) ...
John Fullerton, Jan Olsson,
2004
2
Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving ...
Marshall's grand peristrephic panorama of the coronation ofHis Majesty George /
V (1821). 4' Webster's international Dictionary of the English Language. New
Edition with Supplement ofNew Words, ed. Noah Porter (Springfield, Mass.: G. &
C.
3
The New Monthly Magazine
While others are pacing with rapidity along the flags which have worn out so
many hopes, Joy remains in stationary stateliness, peering with a side-long look
at the peristrephic panorama that revolves around him. The whole, however, of
what ...
In the exhibition world, meanwhile, the moving panorama was appearing under
the newly invented term "peristrephic" ("turning round, revolving, rotatory" —
Oxford English Dictionary). The show bearing that name, belonging to one
Marshall,* ...
Richard Daniel Altick,
1978
5
The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of ...
Tfce Proprietort (the original inventor* of the Peristrephic Panorama) hare the
honour most respectfully to announce to tie Nobility and Public of Edinburgh and
IU Vldni'y, that they bare brought from London, and opened for Exhibition, in the ...
6
The Spirit of the English Magazines
I went into the Peristrephic, where however I found somewhat more internal
furniture than ever I heard of in a humming-top, — unless this huge round world
turning on its invisible spindle may be considered one. I saw the Battle of
Waterloo ...
I went into the Peristrephic, where however I found somewhat more internal
furniture than ever I heard of in a humming-top, — unless this huge round world
turning on its invisible spindle may be considered one. 1 saw the Battle of
Waterloo ...
8
The Edinburgh literary journal; or, Weekly register of ...
PERISTREPHIC. PANORAMA. The Proprietors (the original inventors of the
Peristrephlc Panorama) have the honour most respectfully to announce to the
Nobility and Public of Edinburgh and its Vicini'y, that they have brought from
London, ...
9
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
... painfully (though not perhaps the less fondly) familiar, for the traveller's
unfettered progress, with cities, and counties, and kingdoms, flitting before his
eye in rapid succession, till the world seems one gay, animated, peristrephic
panorama !
10
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Long before then, Byron, who certainly was not straight-laced, had published his
poem of " The Waltz ;" and without subscribing to his views flpon our peristrephic
performances, we must needs own that his satire is of double value now.