Through the negative [electronic resource] : the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature / Megan Rowley Williams

Author	Williams, Megan Rowley, 1969-
Title	Through the negative [electronic resource] : the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature / Megan Rowley Williams
Imprint	New York : Routledge, 2003
Connect to	http://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9780203502204
Descript	x, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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

Hawthorne Nathaniel 1804-1864 -- Knowledge -- Photography Melville Herman 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Photography Crane Stephen 1871-1900 -- Knowledge -- Photography Twain Mark 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Photography American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century Visual perception in literature Photography in literature Electronic books.