Through the Negative
The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Published on 12. November 2003
224 pages
978-1-135-88740-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Civil War was the first 'image war', as photographs of the battlefields became the dominant means for capturing an epochal historical moment. At the same time, writers used the Civil War to present both their notions of nation and their ideas about the new intersections between photography and literary form.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
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5,64 MB
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978-1-135-88740-7 (9781135887407)
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Megan Williams (PhD, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University) (Author)
Content
CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Still Narration Chapter One: Daguerreotype Images of a Disposable Past in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables Chapter Two: Mapping the Literal: The Pastoral Tradition of the Rural Cemetery Movement and Frederick Law Olmsted Chapter Three: Sacred Relics and Renewed Landscapes: The Cultural Work of the Civil War Photograph Chapter Four: "Sounding the Wilderness": Representations of the Heroic in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Chapter Five: Seeing in Circles: The Moving Panorama and Images of a Sanitized History in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi Chapter Six: Snapshot Memory and Flashes of History in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Epilogue: Foundations of Dust and Stone Notes Bibliography Index
