Victorian photography and literary nostalgia
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Victorian photography and literary nostalgia
Oxford University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-237) and index
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Description
This book traces the various ways in which Victorian writers, photographers, publishers, and consumers translated the idea of photography into an ideal of arrested time. The possibility of arresting time was the symbolic currency of all those in the business of selling poetry to a wider audience through popular forms such as the gift books, travel guides, magic lantern shows, working men's editions of verse, celebrity portraits, memorabilia, and mementos. Beginning with an analysis of early photographic reviewing cultures and the first photographically illustrated verse anthologies to be published in England, Helen Groth then traces the cultural permutations of literary and cultural nostalgia that the work of poets such as Wordsworth, Scott, Barrett Browning, Tennyson, and lesser-known poets such as Augusta Webster and Agnes Mary Frances. Robinson inspired Victorian photographers, publishers, and critics alike.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Nostalgia and Poetic Idylls in Early Victorian Photographic Discourse
- 3. Wordsworthian Afterlives and Photographic Nostalgia
- 4. Scott, Technology, and Nostalgic Reinvention
- 5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Photography, and the Afterlife of Poetry
- 6. Cameron, Tennyson, and the Luxury of Reminiscing
- 7. Literary Ephemera and the Timeless Image in Late Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture
- 8. Afterword
- Bibliography
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