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Fiction in the Age of Photography - The Legacy of British Realism (Paperback, Revised)
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Fiction in the Age of Photography - The Legacy of British Realism (Paperback, Revised)
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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. The Victorian novel's
collaboration with photography was indeed so successful, Armstrong
contends, that literary criticism assumes a text is gesturing
toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph.
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