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UNINA9911103380803321 |
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Autore |
Dinius Marcy J |
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The camera and the press : American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype / / Marcy J. Dinius |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
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9781283898348 |
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9780812206340 |
0812206347 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Photography in literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Literature and photography - United States - History - 19th century |
American fiction - 19th century - Illustrations - Public opinion |
Daguerreotype - United States - History - 19th century |
Documentary photography - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Visual communication - United States - History - 19th century |
Public opinion - United States - History - 19th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print -- Chapter 2. Daguerreian Romanticism The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison's Portraits -- Chapter 3. ''Some ideal image of the man and his mind'' Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian Aesthetic -- Chapter 4. Slavery in Black and White Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chapter 5. ''My daguerreotype shall be a true one'' Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement -- Chapter 6. Seeing a Slave as a Man Frederick Douglass, Racial Progress, and Daguerreian Portraiture -- Epilogue. ''An Old Daguerreotype'' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America. |
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UNINA9911107419803321 |
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Titolo |
Living the lunar calendar / / editors, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele |
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Oxford : , : Oxbow Books, , 2012 |
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9781842179062 |
1842179063 |
9781842179086 |
184217908X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 387 pages) : illustrations |
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Ben-DovJonathan |
HorowitzWayne <1957-> |
SteeleJohn M |
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Calendars - History - To 1500 |
Calendar, Assyro-Babylonian |
Calendar, Greek |
Calendar, Egyptian |
Jewish calendar |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Forward / Amanda Weiss -- Introduction / Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz and John M. Steele -- Sunday in Mesopotamia / Wayne Horowitz -- Middle Assyrian lunar calendar and chronology / Yigal Bloch -- Beyond the moon : Minoan calendar-symbolism in the blue bird fresco / Sabine Beckman -- Early Greek lunisolar cycles : the Pythian and olympic games / Robert Hannah -- What to do on the thirtieth? : a neo-Platonic interpretation of Hesiod's works and days, 765-8 / Patrizia Marzillo -- Why Greek lunar months began a day later than Egyptian lunar months, both before first visibility of the new crescent / Leo Depuydt -- Lunar calendars at Qumran : a comparative and ideological study / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- Tame and wild time in the Qumran and Rabbinic calendar / Ron H. Feldman -- The Rabbinic new moon procedure : context and significance / Sacha Stern -- From |
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observation to calculation : the development of the Rabbinic lunar calendar / Lawrence H. Schiffman. |
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Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. |
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