Victorian Negatives
Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2019
218 pages
978-1-4384-7538-7 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 16
Total Illustrations: 16
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-7538-7 (9781438475387)
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Susan E. Cook
Victorian Negatives
Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Book
07/2020
State University of New York Press
€41.30
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Susan E. Cook
Victorian Negatives
Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Book
08/2019
State University of New York Press
€107.70
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Susan E. Cook is Associate Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Daguerreotype: Dickens's Counterfeit Presentment
2. The Solarized Print: Little Dorrit's Sun and Shadow
3. The Forensic Photograph and the Cabinet Card: Failing to Observe with Sherlock Holmes
4. The Double Exposure: Double Negatives at the Fin de Siecle
5. The Postmortem Photograph: Photographing (in) Wessex
Conclusion Photographic Absence and the Vampire's Modern Celebrity
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Daguerreotype: Dickens's Counterfeit Presentment
2. The Solarized Print: Little Dorrit's Sun and Shadow
3. The Forensic Photograph and the Cabinet Card: Failing to Observe with Sherlock Holmes
4. The Double Exposure: Double Negatives at the Fin de Siecle
5. The Postmortem Photograph: Photographing (in) Wessex
Conclusion Photographic Absence and the Vampire's Modern Celebrity
Notes
Works Cited
Index
