The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination

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The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination is written by Alberto Gabriele and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349961256 (ISBN 10) and 9781349961252 (ISBN 13).

This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of pre-cinematic spectacle. It also identifies a so far neglected aspect of novel theory that nineteenth-century authors elaborated by incorporating suggestions from pre-cinematic visual spectacles. By shedding light on forms of visuality that were not entertained by the dominant aesthetic modes of painting and photography, The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination argues that the presence of nineteenth century pre-cinematic optical illusions in works of fiction redefines the notion of mimesis as animated movement and points to a continuity between pre-cinema, the literary imagination and the structures of knowledge production of the modern episteme.