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Book SynopsisThis book examines how the interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices; Chapter 1: Moving Books in Regency London; Chapter 2: Byronic Networks: Circulating Images in Minds and Media; Chapter 3: Natural Magic and the Technologies of Reading: David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott; Chapter 4: Reading Habits and Magic Lanterns: Dickens and Dr Pepper's Ghost; Chapter 5: Dissolving Views: Dreams of Reading Alice; Chapter 6: Flickering Effects: George Robert Sims and the Psychology of the Moving Image; Chapter 7: Literary Projections and Residual Media: Cecil Hepworth and Robert Paul; Bibliography.
