Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism

by Nancy Armstrong

Book Overview

Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs. In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of photography that transformed the world into a picture. By...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007CKLXPM
• ISBN13: 9780674008014
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"