Title Through the Negative : the Photographic Image and the Written Word in

Published London : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages) 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 Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Knowledge -- Photography Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Photography Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 -- Knowledge -- Photography Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Photography SUBJECT Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 fast Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 fast Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast Subject 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. American fiction Description (Rhetoric) Literature and photography Photography Photography in literature Visual perception in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203502204 0203502205

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