Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880 - 1920

Capturing the Image

Dr Emily Ennis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19625-4 (ISBN)

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At the turn of the 20th century, printing and photographic technologies evolved rapidly, leading to the birth of mass media and the rise of the amateur photographer. Demonstrating how this development happened symbiotically with great changes in the shape of British literature, Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880-1920 explores this co-evolution, showing that as both writing and photography became tools of mass dissemination, literary writers were forced to re-evaluate their professional and personal identities.

Focusing on four key authors—Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf—each of which had their own private and professional connections to photographs, this book offers valuable historical contexts for contemporary cultural developments and anxieties. At first establishing the authors’ response to developing technologies through their non-fiction, personal correspondences and working drafts, Ennis moves on to examine how their perceptions of photography extend into their major works of fiction: A Laodicean, Dracula, The Secret Agent, The Inheritors and The Voyage Out.

Reflecting on the first ‘graphic revolution’ in a world where text and image are now reproduced digitally and circulated en masse and online, Ennis redirects our attention to when image and text appeared alongside each other for the first time and the crises this sparked for authors: how they would respond to increasingly photographic depictions of everyday life, and in turn, how their writing adapted to a distinctly visual mass media.

Emily Ennis received her PhD from the University of Leeds in 2016. Since then, she has taught Victorian and Modernist literature, as well as modules on visual cultures, at University of Leeds, Newcastle University and Bishop Grosseteste University.

Introduction: Capturing the Image

Part One: Thomas Hardy, Photography, and Reality
Chapter One: The Figure of the Author and Amateur Photography
Chapter Two: Obscuring the Boundaries: Art, Imagination, Photography

Part Two: Bram Stoker, Theatrical Culture, and the Photographic Heritage of the Vampire
Chapter Three: Photography, Promotion, and the Theatrical Profession in Bram Stoker’s Correspondence
Chapter Four: ‘Could not codak him’: Theatrical Monsters and Popular Photography

Part Three: Joseph Conrad: Photography, Identity, and Modernity
Chapter Five: Past and Present Lives: Conrad, Heritage, and Literary Celebrity
Chapter Six: Modernity, Mass Media, and Moving Pictures

Part Four: Photography, Composition, Memory: Virginia Woolf’s Early Prose and Family Albums
Chapter Seven: Photography and Woolf’s Non-Fiction
Chapter Eight: Woolf as Rachel Vinrace: Biography, Photography, and The Voyage Out (1915)

Coda(k): Professional Writing, Leisure, and Class

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2022
Zusatzinfo	7 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-19625-8 / 1350196258
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19625-4 / 9781350196254
Zustand	Neuware