John Plunkett is currently a Junior Research Fellow at the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, Exeter University. His main research interests are in nineteenth-century print and visual media, especially photography, popular fiction and the periodical press. He is currently working on a book, Optical Recreations, which examines the different types of nineteenth-century domestic and public screen entertainment. In 2002, he held a visiting fellowship at Yale Centre for British Art for work on this project.

... fascinating new book ... Plunkett has given us an extensively researched, carefully argued and eminently readable study.

• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; CONCLUSION ; APPENDIX ONE ; FURTHER READING ; INDEX

John Plunkett is currently a Junior Research Fellow at the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, Exeter University. His main research interests are in nineteenth-century print and visual media, especially photography, popular fiction and the periodical press. He is currently working on a book, Optical Recreations, which examines the different types of nineteenth-century domestic and public screen entertainment. In 2002, he held a visiting fellowship at Yale Centre for British Art for work on this project.

... fascinating new book ... Plunkett has given us an extensively researched, carefully argued and eminently readable study.

• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; CONCLUSION ; APPENDIX ONE ; FURTHER READING ; INDEX