The camera and the press : American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dinius, Marcy J.
Imprint:	Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.
Description:	308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Material texts Material texts.
Subject:	Photography in literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century. American fiction -- 19th century -- Illustrations -- Public opinion. Daguerreotype -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Documentary photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Visual communication -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Daguerreotype. Documentary photography -- Social aspects. Literature and photography. Photography in literature. Public opinion. Visual communication. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8778467

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ISBN:	9780812244045 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0812244044 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print
2. Daguerreian Romanticism: The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison's Portraits
3. "Some ideal image of the man and his mind": Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian Aesthetic
4. Slavery in Black and White: Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin
5. "My daguerreotype shall be a true one": Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement
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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