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

1. Hawthorne
2. Nathaniel
3. 1804-1864 -- Knowledge -- Photography
4. Melville
5. Herman
6. 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Photography
7. Crane
8. Stephen
9. 1871-1900 -- Knowledge -- Photography
10. Twain
11. Mark
12. 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Photography
13. American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
14. Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
15. Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
16. Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
17. Visual perception in literature
18. Photography in literature
19. Electronic books.