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The Portrait and the Book : Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America /

In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods like steel engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before the widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already established the illustrated book format as central to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walsh, Megan (Professor) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Impressions (Series) (University of Iowa Press)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Benjamin Franklin's portraits and colonial printing
  • Phillis Wheatley and the durability of the author portrait
  • Nationalist portraiture, magazines, and political books
  • Picturing the seduction heroine in the United States
  • Gothic portraiture in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Ormond.