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Author Green-Lewis, Jennifer, author

Title Victorian photography, literature and the invention of modern memory : already the past / Jennifer Green-Lewis
Published London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017
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Description 1 online resource
Series Photography, history : history, photography
Photography, history: history, photography.
Contents The Photograph in Time -- Photography in the Age of Oblivion -- A Culture of Memory -- The Retrievable Past -- "Already the Past": The Backward Glance of Victorian Photography -- The Photograph is Associated with the Past -- The Real is Past -- Having Been: Photography and the Texture of Time -- Surface: The Rough and the Smooth -- Precision, Duration, Simultaneity -- The Fossil and the Photograph -- Texture and the Matter of Photography -- The Photograph as Time -- Literary Memory and Victorian Stylistics -- Photography, Remembrance, and the Novel -- The Language of Reviews: Realism and Details -- The Flash of Insight: Metaphor and Narration -- Literary Description and the Structure of Recall -- The Pictorial Present -- Past as Picture: David Copperfield -- Combination Printing and Novelistic Memory -- Modernism's Photographic Past -- Past Inaccessible: The First World War -- "The Dead": Photography and the Persistence of the Object -- Woolf: The "Now" of the Photographed World -- "The Ache of Departure": Modernism's Victorian Childhood -- At Home in the Nineteenth Century -- The Visible Nineteenth Century -- A Photographic Canon -- Nostalgia, Authenticity, Home Furnishing -- At Home in the Nineteenth Century
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2019)
Subject Photography -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
Photography literature -- History -- 19th century
Literature and photography.
Literature & literary studies.
History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900.
Social & cultural history.
Photography & photographs.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
Literature and photography
Photography literature
Photography -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016054496
ISBN 9781474263092
1474263097
9781474263115
1474263119
9781000213140
1000213145