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Author:

Jarenski, Shelly, author.

Title:

Immersive words : mass media, visuality, and American literature, 1839-1893 / Shelly Jarenski.

Publisher:

The University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Aesthetics in literature.
Aesthetics, American.
Aesthetics, American.
Aesthetics in literature.
American literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.

Contents:

Disruptive aesthetics: Melville's daguerrean experiments -- Panoramic aesthetics and African American challenges -- Imagined tourism: Hawthorne's virtual Rome -- Spectacular display: the politics of exhibition aesthetics -- Coda.

ISBN:

0817318674 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817318673 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)896791558

LCCN:

2014041356

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)