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Author Dinius, Marcy J.

Title The camera and the press : American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype / Marcy J. Dinius
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations
Series Material texts
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Contents The daguerreotype in Antebellum American popular print -- Daguerreian romanticism: The house of the seven gables and Gabriel Harrison's portraits -- "Some ideal image of the man and his mind": Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian aesthetic -- Slavery in black and white: daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- "My daguerreotype shall be a true one": Augustus Washington and the Liberian colonization movement -- Seeing a slave as a man: Frederick Douglass, racial progress, and daguerreian portraiture
Summary "Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America."--Project Muse
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Photography in literature -- History -- 19th century
Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
American fiction -- 19th century -- Illustrations -- Public opinion
Daguerreotype -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Documentary photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Visual communication -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Visual communication
Public opinion
Daguerreotype
Documentary photography -- Social aspects
Literature and photography
Photography in literature
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812206340
0812206347
Other Titles American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype