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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.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Photography in literature--History--19th century.
Literature and photography--United States--History--19th century.
American fiction--19th century--Public opinion.--Public opinion.
Daguerreotype--United States--History--19th century.
Documentary photography--History--United States--History--19th century.
Visual communication--History--History--19th century.
Public opinion--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

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.

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.

Series:

Material texts

ISBN:

0812244044 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812244045 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)756767650

LCCN:

2011040431

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)