03456oam 2200745I 450 991078380490332120230617000647.01-135-88740-31-135-88741-10-429-23382-51-280-17575-30-203-50220-510.4324/9780203502204 (CKB)1000000000255619(EBL)200846(OCoLC)793165310(SSID)ssj0000259207(PQKBManifestationID)11210876(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259207(PQKBWorkID)10273265(PQKB)10421467(MiAaPQ)EBC200846(Au-PeEL)EBL200846(CaPaEBR)ebr10162802(CaONFJC)MIL17575(OCoLC)1000431909(EXLCZ)99100000000025561920180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThrough the negative the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature /Megan Rowley WilliamsNew York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (260 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-76261-8 0-415-96673-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-234) and index.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 WarFive: 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; IndexExamines 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.Literary criticism and cultural theory.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and photographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPhotographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDescription (Rhetoric)History19th centuryVisual perception in literaturePhotography in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and photographyHistoryPhotographyHistoryDescription (Rhetoric)HistoryVisual perception in literature.Photography in literature.813/.309Williams Megan Rowley1969,1481661FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910783804903321Through the negative3698744UNINA