03325nam a22004095i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001700169072002300186072001600209100008000225245017400305250001800479264007700497300006200574336002600636337002600662338003600688347002400724505047200748520135901220650003802579650002802617650003502645650002102680710003402701773002602735776003602761776003602797776003602833856004602869978-1-137-56131-2DE-He21320251030113311.0cr nn 008mamaa241115s2024    xxu|    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97811375613127 a10.1057/978-1-137-56131-22doi 4aPN760.5-769 7aDSBF2bicssc 7aLIT0240402bisacsh 7aDSBF2thema1 aGabriele, Alberto.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imaginationh[electronic resource] :bFragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern Episteme /cby Alberto Gabriele.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aNew York :bPalgrave Macmillan US :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aIX, 246 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1: Introduction -- 2: Traces and Origins, Signs and Meanings: Analogy and the Thaumatrope in Melville’s Pierre, or, the Ambiguities -- 3: The Portraiture of Modern Life: Dioramas, Phantasmagorias, Daguerrotypes and the Unweaving of Narrative and Textuality in Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables -- 4: Precinema and the Visualization of Nineteenth-Century Realism: Balzac -- Precinema and the Visualization of Nineteenth-Century Realism: Eliot -- 5: Conclusion.  aThis 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. Alberto Gabriele is the author of Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism (2009) and The Emergence of Pre-Cinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination (2016). He also edited Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: A Global Nineteenth-Century Perspective (2017). He has previously been a Macgeorge fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. . 0aLiterature, Modernx19th century. 0aLiteraturexPhilosophy.14aNineteenth-Century Literature.24aLiterary Theory.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978134957776708iPrinted edition:z978134996116008iPrinted edition:z978134996125240uhttps://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56131-2