Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Daniel A. Novak is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. Klappentext An illustrated study of the interactions between photographic technique and literary representation in the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This fascinating account of the relationship between Victorian photography and literary realism draws on detailed readings of photographs! writings about photography! and fiction by Dickens! George Eliot and Wilde. Illustrated with many photographs! this book represents an important contribution to current debates on the nature of Victorian realism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'detestable introductions'; 1. Missing persons and model bodies: Victorian photographic figures; 2. Composing the novel body: re-membering the body and the text in Little Dorrit; 3. A model Jew: 'literary photography' and the Jewish body in Daniel Deronda; 4. Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility: Wilde, identity, and photography; After-image: surviving the photograph; Select bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel A. Novak, Daniel A. (Professor Novak, Daniel Akiva Novak, NOVAK DANIEL A
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780521885256
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88525-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies