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Author Groth, Helen, author

Title Moving images : nineteenth-century reading and screen practices / Helen Groth
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description xi, 212 pages : illustrations, ; 24 cm
Series Edinburgh critical studies in victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Contents 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
Analysis Australian
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and photography -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Motion pictures.
Projectors in literature.
Visual communication -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Visual communication -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects.
Visual literacy.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056819
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856
LC no. 2013362065
ISBN 0748669485 (hardback)
9780748669486 (hardback)
9780748669493 (webready PDF)
9780748669509 (epub)