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Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880 - 1920
Emily Ennis
其他書名
Capturing the Image
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2022-03-24
主題
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies
Literary Criticism / General
Photography / General
ISBN
1350196207
9781350196209
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-I5sEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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At the turn of the 20th century, printing and photographic technologies evolved rapidly, leading to the birth of mass media and the rise of the amateur photographer. Demonstrating how this development happened symbiotically with great changes in the shape of British literature,
Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880-1920
explores this co-evolution, showing that as both writing and photography became tools of mass dissemination, literary writers were forced to re-evaluate their professional and personal identities.
Focusing on four key authors-Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf-each of which had their own private and professional connections to photographs, this book offers valuable historical contexts for contemporary cultural developments and anxieties. At first establishing the authors' response to developing technologies through their non-fiction, personal correspondences and working drafts, Ennis moves on to examine how their perceptions of photography extend into their major works of fiction:
A Laodicean
,
Dracula
,
The Secret Agent, The Inheritors
and
The Voyage Out.
Reflecting on the first 'graphic revolution' in a world where text and image are now reproduced digitally and circulated en masse and online, Ennis redirects our attention to when image and text appeared alongside each other for the first time and the crises this sparked for authors: how they would respond to increasingly photographic depictions of everyday life, and in turn, how their writing adapted to a distinctly visual mass media.