Fiction in the Age of Photography

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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. "In this engaging look at Victorian fiction, Armstrong shows how the unprecedented popularity of photography affected and informed the works of major writers ... As much social commentary as literary criticism, the book brings to life a society obsessed with the camera and burdened with what Armstrong calls a 'mass visuality.' An important work." --Ellen Sullivan, Library Journal

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