Gabriele, Alberto. The emergence of pre-cinema : print culture and the optical toy of the literary imagination

Folger bibliographic ID: 351445
Folger call number: PN56.V543 G28 2016
Folger holdings ID: 500084

"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

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index "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

Extended title: The emergence of pre-cinema : print culture and the optical toy of the literary imagination / Alberto Gabriele

Vision in literature Spectacular, The, in literature Literature, Modern Art and literature Aesthetics

author: Gabriele, Alberto, 1970-