The Emergence of Pre-Cinema, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination
Auteur : Gabriele Alberto
The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of the Romantic age, in the prose of Anne Radcliffe, the experiments of Friedrich Schlegel, and in Wordsworth?s Prelude. The book examines the cultural traces of the transformation of perception and representation in art, architecture, literature, and print culture, providing an indispensable background to any discussion of nineteenth-century culture at large and its striving for a figurative model of realism. Understanding the origins of nineteenth-century mimesis through an unacknowledged genealogy of visual practices helps also to redefine novel theory and points to the centrality of the new definition of ?historicism? irradiating from Jena Romanticism for the structuring of modern cultural studies.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Emergence of Precinema
Chapter 2 From Analogia Entis to the Threshold of Self-Reflexivity in the Poetry of Dante, Donne and Shakespeare
Chapter 3 The Modern(ist) Reader: Friedrich Schlegel’s Fragments, the Emergence of Modern Philology and the Montage Effect of Industrial Modernity
Chapter 4 A Map to the Panorama: the Self-reflexive Construction of Sight and the Flickering Shadows of the Phantasmagoria Effect in Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho
Chapter 5 Visions of the City of London: Mechanical Eye and Poetic Transcendence in Wordsworth’s Prelude—Book 7
Notes
Bibliography
Alberto Gabriele is the author of Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism and the forthcoming Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: A Global Nineteenth-Century Perspective. He is working on a project on the global circulation of print culture in the 1860s and has been, most recently, a Macgeorge fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Presents print culture and the literary imagination as an unacknowledged pre-cinematic optical toy
Offers a comprehensive and expansive discussion that stretches from Dante to William Wordsworth
Proposes a new understanding of the relationship between literature and modernity.
Date de parution : 12-2018
Ouvrage de 229 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 12-2016
Ouvrage de 229 p.
14.8x21 cm