The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination : Fragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern Episteme

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This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of pre-cinematic spectacle.