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Confounding Images : Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction /
Susan Williams recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography in an important rereading of American fiction in the decades preceding the Civil War. The rise of photography occurred simultaneously with the rapid expansion of magazine publication in America, and Williams analyzes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: Confounding Images
- 1. The Portrait and the Social Construction of Ekphrasis
- 2. "The Inconstant Daguerreotype": The Narrative of Early Photography
- 3. The Haunted Portrait and Models of Authorship in Periodicals and Gift Books
- 4. Hawthorne, Daguerreotypy, and The House of the Seven Gables
- 5. Melville's Pierre and the Burden of Imitation
- 6. The Photography of Travel: Reading The Marble Faun
- Afterword: Photography and Portraiture in the Later Nineteenth Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index