Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Arresting Time
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-925624-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
'Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia' looks back to the early days of photography, when writers, publishers, and photographers were only beginning to consider the impact of this new way of seeing on their work and lives.
This book traces the various ways in which Victorian writers, photographers, publishers, and consumers translated the idea of photography into an ideal of arrested time. The possibility of arresting time was the symbolic currency of all those in the busin
List of illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. Nostalgia and Poetic Idylls in Early Victorian Photographic Discourse; 3. Wordsworthian Afterlives and Photographic Nostalgia; 4. Scott, Technology, and Nostalgic Reinvention; 5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Photography, and the Afterlife of Poetry; 6. Cameron, Tennyson, and the Luxury of Reminiscing; 7. Literary Ephemera and the Timeless Image in Late Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture; 8. Afterword; Bibliography
