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Autore: | Williams Megan Rowley <1969, > |
Titolo: | Through the negative : the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature / / Megan Rowley Williams |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813/.309 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Through the negative |
ISBN: | 1-135-88741-1 |
0-429-23382-5 | |
1-280-17575-3 | |
0-203-50220-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450603803321 |
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