Moving images : nineteenth-century reading and screen practices / Helen Groth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Groth, Helen, author.

Series:

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Projectors in literature.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Moving books in regency London

Byronic networks: circulating images in minds and media

Natural magic and the technologies of reading: David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott

Reading habits and magic lanterns: Dickens and Dr Pepper's ghost

Dissolving views: dreams of reading Alice

Flickering effects: George Robert Sims and the psychology of moving images

Literary projections and residual media: Cecil Hepworth and Robert Paul.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-7486-6950-7

0-7486-9517-6

0-7486-6949-3

OCLC:

861080345