03686nam a22004935i 4500 978-1-137-56131-2 DE-He213 20251030113311.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241115s2024 xxu| s |||| 0|eng d 9781137561312 978-1-137-56131-2 10.1057/978-1-137-56131-2 doi PN760.5-769 DSBF bicssc LIT024040 bisacsh DSBF thema Gabriele, Alberto. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87489 The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination [electronic resource] : Fragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern Episteme / by Alberto Gabriele. 1st ed. 2024. New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 246 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1: 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. 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. 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. . Literature, Modern 19th century. Literature Philosophy. 66322 Nineteenth-Century Literature. Literary Theory. 61787 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9781349577767 Printed edition: 9781349961160 Printed edition: 9781349961252 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56131-2 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 64943 64943