Machine generated contents note: 1.Moving Books in Regency London -- 2.Byronic Networks: Circulating Images in Minds and Media -- 3.Natural Magic and the Technologies of Reading: David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott -- 4.Reading Habits and Magic Lanterns: Dickens and Dr Pepper's Ghost -- 5.Dissolving Views: Dreams of Reading Alice -- 6.Flickering Effects: George Robert Sims and the Psychology of the Moving Image -- 7.Literary Projections and Residual Media: Cecil Hepworth and Robert Paul
Summary
This text examines how the 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