Law, Literature and the Power of Reading : Literalism and Photography in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Introduction 1. Representation of photography, literalist reading and 'the absence of higher truths' in art 2. Photography’s 'fatal resemblances': reading the invisibility of individuality and truth in the work of Wilkie Collins 3. Representation and reading against photographic details in the work of Henry James 4. Photograph albums in fiction: the illegitimate plots and counter-narratives of the photograph-book Conclusion