Book Review: Alberto Gabriele, The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Book Review: Alberto Gabriele, The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Summary/Abstract: It is acknowledged that we live in a time that prioritises video content. Literature as a central form of art has been overthrown by the rise of new video technologies that have become more and more popular. However, as Alberto Gabriele, professor at Link Campus University in Rome, proves in his study, there is a closer connection between literature and the pre-cinematic strategies than previously thought, one that presupposes imaginative techniques. In his recent volume, The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination, he demonstrates that the early modernist novels have used visual strategies similar to the very first cinematic techniques of representation.

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