Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination

Alberto Gabriele is the author of Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism (2009) and The Emergence of Pre-Cinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination (2016). He also edited Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: A Global Nineteenth-Century Perspective (2017). He is Associate Professor of English at Rome Link Campus University.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Traces and Origins, Signs and Meanings: Analogy and the Thaumatrope in Melville’s Pierre, or, the Ambiguities.- 3: The Portraiture of Modern Life: Dioramas, Phantasmagorias, Daguerrotypes and the Unweaving of Narrative and Textuality in Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables.- 4: Precinema and the Visualization of Nineteenth-Century Realism: Balzac.- Precinema and the Visualization of Nineteenth-Century Realism: Eliot.- 5: Conclusion.