The Camera and the Press : American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype /
Dinius, Marcy J.
The Camera and the Press : American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype / Marcy J. Dinius. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 44 illus. - Material Texts .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print -- Chapter 2. Daguerreian Romanticism The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison's Portraits -- Chapter 3. ''Some ideal image of the man and his mind'' Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian Aesthetic -- Chapter 4. Slavery in Black and White Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chapter 5. ''My daguerreotype shall be a true one'' Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement -- Chapter 6. Seeing a Slave as a Man Frederick Douglass, Racial Progress, and Daguerreian Portraiture -- Epilogue. ''An Old Daguerreotype'' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled.Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812244045 9780812206340
10.9783/9780812206340 doi
American fiction--19th century--Illustrations--Public opinion.
American fiction--Illustrations--Public opinion--19th century.
American fiction--Illustrations--Public opinion.--19th century
Daguerreotype--History--19th century.--United States
Daguerreotype--History--United States--19th century.
Documentary photography--History--19th century.--United States--Social aspects
Documentary photography--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Literature and photography--History--19th century.--United States
Literature and photography--History--United States--19th century.
Photography in literature--History--19th century.
Photography in literature--History--19th century.
Public opinion--History--19th century.--United States
Public opinion--History--United States--19th century.
Visual communication--History--19th century.--United States
Visual communication--History--United States--19th century.
Photography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American History. American Studies. Cultural Studies. Literature. Photography.
PS374.P43 / D56 2012
810.9/357
The Camera and the Press : American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype / Marcy J. Dinius. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 44 illus. - Material Texts .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print -- Chapter 2. Daguerreian Romanticism The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison's Portraits -- Chapter 3. ''Some ideal image of the man and his mind'' Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian Aesthetic -- Chapter 4. Slavery in Black and White Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chapter 5. ''My daguerreotype shall be a true one'' Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement -- Chapter 6. Seeing a Slave as a Man Frederick Douglass, Racial Progress, and Daguerreian Portraiture -- Epilogue. ''An Old Daguerreotype'' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled.Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812244045 9780812206340
10.9783/9780812206340 doi
American fiction--19th century--Illustrations--Public opinion.
American fiction--Illustrations--Public opinion--19th century.
American fiction--Illustrations--Public opinion.--19th century
Daguerreotype--History--19th century.--United States
Daguerreotype--History--United States--19th century.
Documentary photography--History--19th century.--United States--Social aspects
Documentary photography--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Literature and photography--History--19th century.--United States
Literature and photography--History--United States--19th century.
Photography in literature--History--19th century.
Photography in literature--History--19th century.
Public opinion--History--19th century.--United States
Public opinion--History--United States--19th century.
Visual communication--History--19th century.--United States
Visual communication--History--United States--19th century.
Photography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American History. American Studies. Cultural Studies. Literature. Photography.
PS374.P43 / D56 2012
810.9/357