Lo Stato parlamentare in Inghilterra e in Germania / Emilio Crosa

• Record Nr.: UNINA990006305500403321
• Autore: Crosa, Emilio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Pavia : Treves, 1929
• Descrizione fisica: 139 p. ; 24 cm
• Collana: "Universita' di Pavia. Facolta' di scienze politiche. Collana di scienze politiche / diretta da Vaccari. Serie D ; 2
• Disciplina: 340.2
• Locazione: FGBC
• Collocazione: I S 62
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Non definito
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450603803321
• Autore: Williams Megan Rowley <1969, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-88741-1; 0-429-23382-5; 1-280-17575-3; 0-203-50220-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Collana: Literary criticism and cultural theory
• Disciplina: 813/.309
• Soggetti: American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature and photography - United States - History - 19th century; Photography - United States - History - 19th century; Description (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century; Visual perception in literature; Photography in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-234) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Still Narration; One: Daguerreotype Images of a Disposable Past inNathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables; Two: Mapping the Literal: The Pastoral Tradition of the Rural Cemetery Movement and Frederick Law Olmsted; Three: Sacred Relics and Renewed Landscapes: The CulturalWork of the Civil War Photograph; Four: "Sounding the Wilderness": Representations of theHeroic in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspectsof the War; Five: Seeing in Circles: The Moving Panorama and Imagesof a Sanitized History in Mark Twain's Life On theMississippiSix: Snapshot Memory and Flashes of History in StephenCrane's The Red Badge of Courage; Epilogue: Foundations of Dust and Stone; Notes; Works Consulted; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.