Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination

Fragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern Episteme

AvAlberto Gabriele

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of pre-cinematic spectacle.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-15
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:446 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349961160

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Alberto Gabriele is the author of Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism (2009) and The Emergence of Pre-Cinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination (2016). He also edited Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: A Global Nineteenth-Century Perspective (2017). He is Associate Professor of English at Rome Link Campus University.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction.- 2: Traces and Origins, Signs and Meanings: Analogy and the Thaumatrope in Melville’s Pierre, or, the Ambiguities.- 3: The Portraiture of Modern Life: Dioramas, Phantasmagorias, Daguerrotypes and the Unweaving of Narrative and Textuality in Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables.- 4: Precinema and the Visualization of Nineteenth-Century Realism: Balzac.- Precinema and the Visualization of Nineteenth-Century Realism: Eliot.- 5: Conclusion.