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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.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Collection: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.