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CONFOUNDING IMAGES: PHOTOGRAPHY AND PORTRAITURE IN By Susan S. Williams HC/DJ
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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum
- ISBN-10
- 0812233972
- Genre
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- ISBN
- 9780812233971
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812233972
ISBN-13
9780812233971
eBay Product ID (ePID)
379354
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Publication Name
Confounding Images : Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction
Language
English
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, General, American / General, History
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Art, Photography
Series
Anniversary Collection
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
96-029728
Reviews
The best study to date of visual representation in antebellum American literature as stylistic practice and as market phenomenon., Confounding Images offers historians a complex portrait of American culture in the antebellum era. Unlike other studies that fight to assign static, binary categories to experience-highbrow/lowbrow, masculine/feminine, plebeian/genteel-this work measures historical exigencies in their moment rather than by their eventualities, and in so doing offers readers rich insights about representation, both visual and textual., "Confounding Images offers historians a complex portrait of American culture in the antebellum era. Unlike other studies that fight to assign static, binary categories to experience--highbrow/lowbrow, masculine/feminine, plebeian/genteel--this work measures historical exigencies in their moment rather than by their eventualities, and in so doing offers readers rich insights about representation, both visual and textual."--Journal of the Early Republic "The best study to date of visual representation in antebellum American literature as stylistic practice and as market phenomenon."--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University, " Confounding Images offers historians a complex portrait of American culture in the antebellum era. Unlike other studies that fight to assign static, binary categories to experience--highbrow/lowbrow, masculine/feminine, plebeian/genteel--this work measures historical exigencies in their moment rather than by their eventualities, and in so doing offers readers rich insights about representation, both visual and textual."-- Journal of the Early Republic, Confounding Images offers historians a complex portrait of American culture in the antebellum era. Unlike other studies that fight to assign static, binary categories to experience-highbrow/lowbrow, masculine/feminine, plebeian/genteel-this work measures historical exigencies in their moment rather than by their eventualities, and in so doing offers readers rich insights about representation, both visual and textual., "The best study to date of visual representation in antebellum American literature as stylistic practice and as market phenomenon."--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.309356
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
Susan Williams recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography in an important rereading of American novels and magazine fiction of the decades preceding the Civil War., Susan Williams recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography in an important rereading of American fiction in the decades preceding the Civil War. The rise of photography occurred simultaneously with the rapid expansion of magazine publication in America, and Williams analyzes the particular role that periodicals such as Godey's Lady's Book , Burton's Gentleman's Magazine , and Atkinson's Casket played in defining how photography was received. At the center of the book are readings of a stunning array of fiction by forgotten and canonical writers alike, including Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and Sarah Hale, as well as extended interpretations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun and Herman Melville's Pierre . In a concluding section, Williams offers a view of the fictional portrait in the later nineteenth century, when the proliferation of illustrated books once again transformed the relation between word and image in American culture.
LC Classification Number
PS374.P43W55 1997
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