Realism, photography, and nineteenth-century fiction / Daniel A. Novak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novak, Daniel Akiva, 1973-

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 60.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Literature and photography--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and photography.

Realism in literature.

Jews in literature.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little Dorrit.

Dickens, Charles.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda.

Eliot, George.

Photography--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Photography.

Photography--Philosophy.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction : "detestable introductions"

Missing persons and model bodies : Victorian photographic figures

Composing the novel body : re-membering the body and the text in Little Dorrit

A model Jew : "literary photographs" and the Jewish body in Daniel Deronda

Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility : Wilde, photography, and identity

After-image : surviving the photograph.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-222) and index.

ISBN:

9780521885256

0521885256

OCLC:

181141115

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