The emergence of pre-cinema: print culture and the optical toy of the literary imagination

"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 experimentatio...

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1. Verfasser: Gabriele, Alberto 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:ix, 229 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9781137597700
1137597704