General & Miscellaneous Photography, Art & Literature, Photo Essays, Rhetoric, Portrait Photography - General & Miscellaneous, 19th Century American Literature - Literary Criticism
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In an important rereading of American fiction in the decades preceding the Civil War, Williams (English, Ohio State University) recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography. Williams contends that in reaction to photography's challenge to the pictorial function of narrative, authors filled their pages with descriptions of fictional portraits<-->fanciful and romantic, often haunted, magic, or demonic, and generally resistant to straightforward representation. She provides readings and interpretations from forgotten as well as canonical writers as examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
May 1, 1997
Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.
Pages
245
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780812233971