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Author Williams, Megan Rowley, 1969-

Title Through the negative : the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature / Megan Rowley Williams.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Literary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index.
Contents 1. Daguerreotype images of a disposable past in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The house of the seven gables -- 2. Mapping the literal : the pastoral tradition of the rural cemetery movement and Frederick Law Olmsted -- 3. Sacred relics and renewed landscapes : the cultural work of the civil war photograph -- 4. "Sounding the wilderness" : representations of the heroic in Herman Melville's Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- 5. Seeing in circles : the moving panorama and images of a sanitized history in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi -- 6. Snapshot memory and flashes of history in Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage -- Foundations of dust and stone.
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Subject Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Knowledge and learning -- Photography.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Photography.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge and learning -- Photography.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 -- Knowledge and learning -- Photography.
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge and learning -- Photography.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and photography.
United States.
History.
Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
Description (Rhetoric)
Visual perception in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
Photography in literature.
Photography in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Williams, Megan Rowley, 1969- Through the negative. New York : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2003002143
ISBN 0203502205 (electronic book)
9780203502204 (electronic book)
9780415966733
0415966736
0415966736 (Cloth)