The Emergence of Pre-Cinema Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the
The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to
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Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination
Alberto Gabriele
The Emergence of Pre-Cinema
Alberto Gabriele
The Emergence of Pre-Cinema Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination
Alberto Gabriele Department of English Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel
ISBN 978-1-137-59770-0 ISBN 978-1-137-54592-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54592-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016955508 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © FineArt / Alamy Stock Photo, Cover design by Samantha Johnson Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter 5 is an extended version of the article that appeared in The European Romantic Review 19 (2008) 4. It is reprinted by permission of the publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd. (http://www.tandfonline.com). My thanks to the publisher and to the editor of The European Romantic Review, Regina Hewitt, for bringing it to its first life as a journal essay. The final revisions in response to the peer review have been completed during a residency at the University of Melbourne sponsored by a Macgeorge fellowship. I wish to thank Rachel Fensham, Head of the School of Culture and Communication, for awarding me with the fellowship, and Ken Gelder from the English department for his hospitality within the Australian Centre. The Macgeorge family needs to be acknowledged for making available their 1911 mansion on a hill descending toward an affluent of the Yarra River. It was a wonderful work station, a secluded place with a panoramic exposure to the alive and shifting Australian landscape that was both visually arresting and jarringly symphonic. It was a suburban space that did not seem to obfuscate the invisible ancient song-lines which set
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