{"id":14064,"date":"2026-02-10T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?p=14064"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:07:56","slug":"book-launch-event-for-emeritus-prof-bruce-graver-tonight-at-4pm-in-the-ruane-great-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/book-launch-event-for-emeritus-prof-bruce-graver-tonight-at-4pm-in-the-ruane-great-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch Event for Emeritus Prof. Bruce Graver Tonight at 4pm in the Ruane Great Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TONIGHT &#8211; ALL WELCOME<br>Book Launch Event for Emeritus Professor Bruce Graver tonight (2\/10) at 4:00pm in Ruane Great Room. The first book-length study of nineteenth-century stereo photography and the picturesque tradition. Explores the relationship between stereo photography and the environmental movement. Offers an exciting new perspective on Victorian visual culture and the reception of Romantic writers.<br>A new look at the technology of vision and representation in Britain and the USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruce Graver is an Emeritus Professor of English at Providence College. He has written widely on the writings of the Wordsworth Circle, the classical tradition, and on nineteenth-century visual culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver--768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Graver holding copy of his latest book The Stereoscopic Picturesque\" class=\"wp-image-14065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver--768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver--225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver--1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver--1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver--1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver--1320x1760.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/Bruce-Graver-.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emeritus Professor Bruce Graver will talk about his new book, \u201cThe Stereoscopic Picturesque Nineteenth-Century Photography, Literary Landscapes, and the Third Dimension\u201d and will bring various 3d viewers and 3d photographs from his collection for folks to (carefully) play with. You thought virtual reality glasses were new high-tech inventions? Not so: they were the home entertainment centers of the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14066,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14064\/revisions\/14066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}