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GUSN-286910
308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Photography in literature History 19th century.
Literature and photography History 19th century.
American fiction Illustrations Public opinion. 19th century
Daguerreotype History 19th century.
Documentary photography Social aspects History 19th century.
Visual communication United States History 19th century.
Public opinion History 19th century.
Dinius, Marcy J.
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.
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press
Material texts
Material texts.
308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.
9780812244045 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812244044 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Stacks PS374.P43 D56 2012
United States
1st ed.
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