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Through the negative : the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature /

Examines how key nineteenth-century American writers attempted to combat, understand, and incorporate the advent of photography in their fiction and analyzes the impact of photography on narrative histories of the nineteenth century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Megan Rowley, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Colección:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Daguerreotype images of a disposable past in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The house of the seven gables
  • 2. Mapping the literal : the pastoral tradition of the rural cemetery movement and Frederick Law Olmsted
  • 3. Sacred relics and renewed landscapes : the cultural work of the civil war photograph
  • 4. "Sounding the wilderness" : representations of the heroic in Herman Melville's Battle-pieces and aspects of the war
  • 5. Seeing in circles : the moving panorama and images of a sanitized history in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi
  • 6. Snapshot memory and flashes of history in Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage
  • Foundations of dust and stone.