LEADER 03530nam 22005415 450 001 9910908367603321 005 20251030100419.0 010 $a9781137561312 010 $a1137561319 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-56131-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31783869 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31783869 035 $a(CKB)36583468300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-56131-2 035 $a(OCoLC)1472987579 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936583468300041 100 $a20241115d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination $eFragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern Episteme /$fby Alberto Gabriele 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (252 pages) 311 08$a9781349961160 311 08$a1349961167 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 $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. . 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 676 $a809.3034 700 $aGabriele$b Alberto$f1970-$0787003 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910908367603321 996 $aThe Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination$94289906 997 $aUNINA