BackThe Emergence of Pre-Cinema
Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination (book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- History of Cinema
- origins of cinema, history of cinema, sociology
- Publishing Date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 240 pages • 69 €
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm) - ISBN
- 978-1-349-95877-1
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Book Presentation:
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. Understanding the origins of nineteenth-century mimesis through an unacknowledged genealogy of visual practices helps also to redefine novel theory and points to the centrality of the new definition of 'historicism' irradiating from Jena Romanticism for the structuring of modern cultural studies.
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