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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450603803321

Autore

Williams Megan Rowley <1969, >

Titolo

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

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.