Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices

Helen Groth

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

Moving Images

Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices

Helen Groth

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748669493

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Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual media

This book examines how the productive interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind. Reading between these parallel histories of mind and media reveals a dynamic conceptual, aesthetic and technological engagement with the moving image that, in turn, produces a new understanding of the production and circulation of the work of key nineteenth-century writers, such as Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. As Helen Groth shows, this engagement is both typical of the nineteenth-century in its preoccupation with questions of automatism and volition (unconscious and conscious thought), spirit and materiality, art and machine, but also definitively modern in its secular articulation of the instructive and entertaining applications of making images move both inside and outside the mind.

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Considers the impact of the dramatic transformations in print and visual culture on our understanding of the production, circulation and mediation of works by Byron, Scott, Thackeray, Carroll, Dickens, Mayhew and James, as well as lesser-known writers such as Ann and Jane Taylor, Pierce Egan, Countess Blessington, and George Sims
Provides a new perspective on the conventional opposition of the early cinema of attractions to the immersive absorption of both nineteenth-century literary formations and later classical narrative cinema

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Moving Books in Regency London Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
2. Byronic Networks: Circulating Images in Minds and Media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3. Natural Magic and the Technologies of Reading: David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4. Reading Habits and Magic Lanterns: Dickens and Dr Pepper’s Ghost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5. Dissolving Views: Dreams of Reading Alice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
6. Flickering Effects: George Robert Sims and the Psychology of the Moving Image Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
7. Literary Projections and Residual Media: Cecil Hepworth and Robert Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 11 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: August 23, 2013
ISBN: 9780748669493