The portrait's subject : inventing inner life in the nineteenth-century United States /

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"Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. ... images of human surfaces became understood as expressions of human depth during this era. Combining visual theory, liter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blackwood, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Studies in United States culture.
Temas:
Portraits, American.
Identity (Psychology) in art.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Psychology and art.
Portraits américains.
Identité (Psychologie) dans l'art.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Psychologie et art.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Identity (Psychology) in art
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Portraits, American
Psychology and art
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In the portrait gallery of American literature
  • Face: Hepzibah's scowl
  • Head: writing the African American portrait
  • Limbs: postbellum portraiture and the mind-body problem
  • Mind/brain: the physiognomy of consciousness
  • Bones: the x-ray and the inert body
  • Selfie nation.

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