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A carefully researched study of the new visual wonders of the nineteenth-century--the kaleidoscope, the magic lantern, the dissolving view, the Thaumatrope, and Phenakistoscope. It shows, with wonderful illumination of its own, how they shaped literary practice and ""psychological aesthetics"" in the decades before cinema.-- ""James Chandler, University of Chicago"" Helen Groth's brilliant study opens new vistas for thinking about literature and moving images. From Byron onwards, Groth brings this world to life in ways that help us understand the complexity of the relationship between words and images for their time and ours.-- ""Jon Mee, University of York""

"A carefully researched study of the new visual wonders of the nineteenth-century--the kaleidoscope, the magic lantern, the dissolving view, the Thaumatrope, and Phenakistoscope. It shows, with wonderful illumination of its own, how they shaped literary practice and ""psychological aesthetics"" in the decades before cinema.-- ""James Chandler, University of Chicago"" Helen Groth's brilliant study opens new vistas for thinking about literature and moving images. From Byron onwards, Groth brings this world to life in ways that help us understand the complexity of the relationship between words and images for their time and ours.-- ""Jon Mee, University of York"""

A carefully researched study of the new visual wonders of the nineteenth-century—the kaleidoscope, the magic lantern, the dissolving view, the Thaumatrope, and Phenakistoscope. It shows, with wonderful illumination of its own, how they shaped literary practice and ""psychological aesthetics"" in the decades before cinema. * James Chandler, University of Chicago * Helen Groth's brilliant study opens new vistas for thinking about literature and moving images. From Byron onwards, Groth brings this world to life in ways that help us understand the complexity of the relationship between words and images for their time and ours. * Jon Mee, University of York *

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Helen Groth is Professor of English in the School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (Oxford University Press, 2004), Moving Images. Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and co-author of Dreams and Modernity. A Cultural History (Routledge, 2013). She is the co-editor of a number of books and special journal issues, most recently Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Writing the Global Riot (Oxford University Press, 2023).

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