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

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Ut Pre-cinema Poesis—Fragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern Episteme
	Pre-cinematic Spectacles as Philosophical Toys
	Inter-active Visions
	The Term Pre-cinema
	Pre-cinema, Early Cinema, or Film Style? The Montage Effect of Print Culture
	Part I: American Modernities
	Part II: Pre-cinema and the Visualisation of Nineteenth-Century Realism
Chapter 2: Traces and Origins, Signs and Meanings: Analogy and the Thaumatrope in Melville’s Pierre, Or, the Ambiguities
Chapter 3: The Portraiture of Modern Life: Dioramas, Phantasmagorias, Daguerreotypes and the Unweaving of Narrative and Textuality in Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables
	The Portraiture of Social Rank in Painting, Map and Miniature Form
	The Panorama and the Fragmented View of Industrial Modernity
	The Phantasmagoria
	The Private Female Sketch and the Questioning of Public Portraiture
	The Daguerreotype
	The Montage-Effect of Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
	Mirrors, Daguerreotypes and the Transcendental Unity of a Mesmeric Utopia
Chapter 4: A ‘Corporama of Historical Facts:’ Balzac’s Comédie Humaine and the Pre-cinematic Imagination
	The Painterly Model: A Metaphoric Condensation
	Pre-cinematic Vision as Social Practice
	The Bibliophile Jacob, Painterly vs. Pre-cinematic Models of Vision
	Phantasmagorias, Retinal Blurs and Fragmented Views
	Transcending Materiality: Intellectual Vision and the Mystical Workings of Light
	Contemporary Painting and Frenhofer’s View of the Past
Chapter 5: Pre-cinematic Vision and the Modern Episteme of Sympathy in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
	The Aesthetic Polarities of the Emerging Visual Discourse of Modernity
	The Pre-cinematic Turn: Exploring Alternative Aesthetic Modalities of Perception
		The Magic Lantern
		The Microscope
		The ‘Syn-Optical Tabulations’ of the New Philology
		The ‘Vital Connections’ of the Sketch: Middlemarch as a ‘Study of Provincial Life’
	The Pre-cinematic Impulse of Narrative Ontology: The Uniting Power of Sympathy
Chapter 6: Coda: Towards Modernism
Bibliography
Index