Abstract

This article examines the links between travel and the stereoscope (an optical instrument designed to view images in three dimensions), focusing in particular on the stereoscopic travel guides launched in the 19th century in the United States by the Underwood brothers. In particular, the experience of immediate reality and its staging in Mabel Sarah Emery's Switzerland through the Stereoscope is studied, as is the tension that exists in the very nature of the book object, oscillating between its documentary, artistic and fictional dimensions.

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