Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory

Analysing a broad range of texts by inventors, cultural critics, photographers, and novelists, this book argues that Victorian photography ultimately defined the concept of memory for generations to come - including our own. The book will be of interest to students of Victorian and modernist literature, visual culture and intellectual history, as well as scholars working within the emerging field of research at the intersection of photographic and literary studies.

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