Fiction in the age of photography : the legacy of British realism

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Label

Fiction in the age of photography : the legacy of British realism

Title remainder

the legacy of British realism

Statement of responsibility

Nancy Armstrong

Creator

• Armstrong, Nancy, 1938-

Subject

• Literature and photography -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Photographie et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
• Realismus
• English fiction
• Literature and photography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Great Britain
• Realisme (letterkunde)
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Geschichte 1840-1910
• History
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Fotografie
• 1800 - 1999
• Letterkunde
• Englisch
• Realism in literature
• Realism in literature
• Réalisme dans la littérature
• Photographie
• Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• Engels
• Literature and photography
• Literatur
• Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• Geschichte 1860-1902

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"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 be captured in one of several photographic genres. So willing was the readership to think of the real as photographs that authors from Charles Dickens to the Brontes, Lewis Carroll, H. Rider Haggard, Oscar Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf had to use the same visual conventions to represent what was real, especially when they sought to debunk those conventions."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR878.R4

LC item number

A76 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography