| Description |
1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Knowledge -- Photography
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Photography
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 -- Knowledge -- Photography
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Photography
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| SUBJECT |
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 fast |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 fast |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast |
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
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Visual perception in literature.
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Photography in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Description (Rhetoric)
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Literature and photography
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Photography
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Photography in literature
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Visual perception in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203502205 |
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9780203502204 |
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9780415966733 |
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0415966736 |
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9786610175758 |
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6610175756 |
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9781135887414 |
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1135887411 |
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9781135887360 |
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1135887365 |
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9781135887407 |
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1135887403 |
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9780415762618 |
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0415762618 |
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0429233825 |
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9780429233821 |
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1280175753 |
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9781280175756 |
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