Through the Negative : The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback)

CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Still Narration Chapter One: Daguerreotype Images of a Disposable Past in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables Chapter Two: Mapping the Literal: The Pastoral Tradition of the Rural Cemetery Movement and Frederick Law Olmsted Chapter Three: Sacred Relics and Renewed Landscapes: The Cultural Work of the Civil War Photograph Chapter Four: Sounding the Wilderness: Representations of the Heroic in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Chapter Five: Seeing in Circles: The Moving Panorama and Images of a Sanitized History in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi Chapter Six: Snapshot Memory and Flashes of History in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Epilogue: Foundations of Dust and Stone Notes Bibliography Index