The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination (eBook)

Fragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern Episteme

Alberto Gabriele (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
IX, 246 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-56131-2 (ISBN)

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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. It also identifies a so far neglected aspect of novel theory that nineteenth-century authors elaborated by incorporating suggestions from pre-cinematic visual spectacles. By shedding light on forms of visuality that were not entertained by the dominant aesthetic modes of painting and photography, The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination argues that the presence of nineteenth century pre-cinematic optical illusions in works of fiction redefines the notion of mimesis as animated movement and points to a continuity between pre-cinema, the literary imagination and the structures of knowledge production of the modern episteme.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2024
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 246 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: avant-garde cinema • classical mimetic efforts • George Eliot • Herman Melville • history of the novel and visual culture • Honore de Balzac • literary imagination • Mimesis • Modernist Art • Nathaniel Hawthorne • nineteenth-century realism • novel theory • optical illusions in literature • Visual Culture
• ISBN-10: 1-137-56131-9 / 1137561319
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-56131-2 / 9781137561312