Romantic mediations : media theory and British romanticism / Andrew Burkett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkett, Andrew, 1977- author.

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

SUNY series, Studies in the long nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Mass media and literature.

History.

Great Britain.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Mass media and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 195 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

Romantic Mediations" investigates the connections among British Romantic writers, their texts, and the history of major forms of technical media from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. Opening up the vital new subfield of Romantic media studies through interventions in both media archaeology and contemporary media theory, Andrew Burkett addresses the ways that unconventional techniques and theories of storage and processing media engage with classic texts by William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and others. Ordered chronologically and structured by four crucial though often overlooked case studies that delve into Romanticism?s role in the histories of incipient technical media systems, the book focuses on different examples of the ways that imaginative literature and art of the period become taken up and transformed by?while simultaneously shaping considerably - new media environments and platforms of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media.

Contents:

Photographing Byron's hand

Keats and the phonograph

Blake's moving images

Media, information, and Frankenstein

Coda: toward a Romantic media archaeology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Burkett, Andrew, 1977- author. Romantic mediations.

ISBN:

9781438463278

1438463278

OCLC:

947816351