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Fiction in the Age of Photography

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Description for Fiction in the Age of Photography paperback. In this study of British realism, the author explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of Victorian photography that transformed the world into a picture. She contends that literary critism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph. Num Pages: 352 pages, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs. In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of photography that transformed the world into a picture. By the 1860s, to know virtually anyone or anything was to understand how to place him, her, or it in that world on the basis of characteristics that either had been or could ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674008014
SKU
V9780674008014
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99-1

About Nancy Armstrong
Nancy Armstrong is Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Desire and Domestic Fiction and co-author of The Imaginary Puritan.

Reviews for Fiction in the Age of Photography
In this engaging look at Victorian fiction, Armstrong show how the unprecedented popularity of photography affected and informed the works of major writers. Choosing well from classic Victorian novels, Armstrong examines the works of authors like Dickens, Emily Bronte;, and Oscar Wilde as she traces the development of realism and discusses the powerful visual clues that began to drive plot ... Read more

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