04936nam 2200793 a 450 991046414150332120211014011016.01-283-89834-90-8122-0634-710.9783/9780812206340(CKB)3170000000046440(OCoLC)822017912(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642725(SSID)ssj0000582018(PQKBManifestationID)11370820(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582018(PQKBWorkID)10541749(PQKB)10639040(MiAaPQ)EBC3441973(OCoLC)793012726(MdBmJHUP)muse17516(DE-B1597)449532(OCoLC)979904851(DE-B1597)9780812206340(Au-PeEL)EBL3441973(CaPaEBR)ebr10642725(CaONFJC)MIL421084(EXLCZ)99317000000004644020110926d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe camera and the press[electronic resource] American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype /Marcy J. Dinius1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20121 online resource (317 p.)Material TextsOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America.0-8122-4404-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.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 --AcknowledgmentsBefore 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.Material texts.Photography in literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and photographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican fiction19th centuryIllustrationsPublic opinionDaguerreotypeUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDocumentary photographySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryVisual communicationUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPublic opinionUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Photography in literatureHistoryLiterature and photographyHistoryAmerican fictionIllustrationsPublic opinion.DaguerreotypeHistoryDocumentary photographySocial aspectsHistoryVisual communicationHistoryPublic opinionHistory810.9/357Dinius Marcy J1052333MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464141503321The camera and the press2483514UNINA