{"product_id":"american-literature-and-immediacy-literary-innovation-and-the-emergence-of-photography-film-and-television-paperback-softback-9781108720137","title":"American Literature and Immediacy; Literary Innovation and the Emergence of Photography, Film, and Television (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108720137","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Literature and Immediacy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterary Innovation and the Emergence of Photography, Film, and Television\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeike Schaefer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108720137, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.533 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'General readers and scholars would feel informed of the immediacy of American literature needed in photography, film, and television, and understand the difference between the three media categories and why immediacy is needed to bring all three of them together.' Sydney Spencer, Communication Booknotes Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe search for immediacy, the desire to feel directly connected to people or events, has been a driving force in American literature and media culture for the past two centuries. This book offers the first in-depth study of literary immediacy effects. It shows how the heightened reality effects of photography, film, and television inspired American writers to create new literary forms that would enhance their readers' sense of immediate participation in the world. The study combines close readings of Emerson, Whitman, Stein, Dos Passos, Coover, Foster Wallace, and DeLillo with detailed considerations of visual media to open up a new perspective on literary innovation and the ongoing cultural quest for increased immediacy. It argues that we can better understand how American literature develops when we consider experiments with literary form not only in literary and cultural contexts but also in relation to the emergence of new media, their immediacy effects, and the larger changes in social life that they manifest and provoke.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe quest for immediacy in American literature and media culture\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Literary Immediacy and Photography: 1. The poet as 'exact reporter of the essential law': Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetics in the context of early photography\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'To exalt the present and the real': Walt Whitman's photographic poetry\u003cbr\u003e 3. The politics of paying attention: the romantic desire for immediacy\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Literary Immediacy and the Cinema: 4. 'Living moving pictures': the thrills of early cinema\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Making a cinema of it': seriality and presence in Gertrude Stein's early literary portraits\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'A novel like a documentary film': cinematic writing as cultural critique in John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Literary Immediacy and Television: 7. Being there: television's aesthetics of immediacy\u003cbr\u003e 8. For real? The critique of TV culture in the short fiction of Robert Coover and David Foster Wallace\u003cbr\u003e 9. “Nothing happens until it is consumed': the remediation of TV images in Don DeLillo's novel Mao II\u003cbr\u003e 10. Fiction in the age of television\u003cbr\u003e Still in pursuit\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Media studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Media studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Media%20studies%20%5BJFD%5D%22\"\u003eJFD\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415689785624,"sku":"9781108720137","price":21.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108720137i.jpg?v=1784423747","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-literature-and-immediacy-literary-innovation-and-the-emergence-of-photography-film-and-television-paperback-softback-9781108720137","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}