TY - BOOK AU - Dinius,Marcy J. TI - The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype T2 - Material Texts SN - 9780812244045 AV - PS374.P43 D56 2012 U1 - 810.9/357 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - Illustrations KW - Public opinion KW - Daguerreotype KW - United States KW - History KW - Documentary photography KW - Social aspects KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - Literature and photography KW - Photography in literature KW - Visual communication KW - Photography KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - bisacsh KW - American History KW - American Studies KW - Cultural Studies KW - Literature N1 - 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; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206340 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812206340 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812206340/original ER -