The Emergence of Pre-Cinema
Subtitle: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 22, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781137597700
Description: "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."--Back cover.
Notes: Source title: The Emergence of Pre-Cinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination