Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past

ISBN-13: 9781032389967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 200 str.

Jennifer Green-Lewis

Opis

Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which to describe it. Analysing a broad range of texts by inventors, cultural critics, photographers, and novelists, Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past argues that Victorian photography ultimately defined the concept of memory for generations to come -including our own. In addition to being invaluable for scholars working within the emerging field of research at the intersection of photographic and literary studies, this book will also be of interest to students of Victorian and modernist literature, visual culture and intellectual history.

Spis treści

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsForeword: AfterlightIntroduction: 'Stars from an empty sky'Part One: The Photograph in Time1: Photography in the Age of Oblivion2: ‘Already the Past’: The Backward Glance of Victorian Photography3: Having Been: Photography and the Texture of TimePart Two: The Photograph as Time4: Literary Memory and Victorian Stylistics5: Modernism's Photographic Past6: At Home in the Nineteenth CenturyBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Jennifer Green-Lewis