Overview

The Civil War was the first 'image war', as photographs of the battlefields became the dominant means for capturing an epochal historical moment. At the same time, writers used the Civil War to present both their notions of nation and their ideas about the new intersections between photography and literary form. Through The Negative offers an account of the collisions between print and visual culture in the work of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and Crane as they responded to and incorporated the work of such photographers as George Barnard, Alexander Gardner and Jacob Riis. Through the Negative examines how key nineteenth-century American writers attempted to combat, understand, and incorporate the advent of photography in their fiction. In so doing, Megan Williams demonstrates how analyzing the impact of photography on the diverse narrative histories of the nineteenth century yields fresh insights about contemporary art and writing, as the photographic image continues to shape national consciousness.

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Author:   Megan Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415762618

ISBN 10:   0415762618
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Still Narration Chapter One: Daguerreotype Images of a Disposable Past in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables Chapter Two: Mapping the Literal: The Pastoral Tradition of the Rural Cemetery Movement and Frederick Law Olmsted Chapter Three: Sacred Relics and Renewed Landscapes: The Cultural Work of the Civil War Photograph Chapter Four: Sounding the Wilderness: Representations of the Heroic in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Chapter Five: Seeing in Circles: The Moving Panorama and Images of a Sanitized History in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi Chapter Six: Snapshot Memory and Flashes of History in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Epilogue: Foundations of Dust and Stone Notes Bibliography Index

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