Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory

Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which to describe it

Jennifer Green-Lewis

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsForeword: AfterlightIntroduction: 'Stars from an empty sky'Part One: The Photograph in Time1: Photography in the Age of Oblivion2: 'Already the Past': The Backward Glance of Victorian Photography3: Having Been: Photography and the Texture of TimePart Two: The Photograph as Time4: Literary Memory and Victorian Stylistics5: Modernism's Photographic Past6: At Home in the Nineteenth CenturyBibliographyIndex