Moving images : nineteenth-century reading and screen practices / Helen Groth.
Groth, Helen| Call Number | 820.9/008 |
| Author | Groth, Helen, author. |
| Title | Moving images : nineteenth-century reading and screen practices / Helen Groth. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject | English literature 19th century History and criticism. Projectors in literature. Books and reading Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century. |
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| 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| 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. |
| Subject | English literature 19th century History and criticism. Projectors in literature. Books and reading Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century. |
| Multimedia |