Author:
Dinius, Marcy J.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Publisher:Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Description:308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index.
Note:The daguerreotype in Antebellum American popular print -- Daguerreian romanticism: The house of the seven gables and Gabriel Harrison's portraits -- "Some ideal image of the man and his mind": Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian aesthetic -- Slavery in black and white: daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- "My daguerreotype shall be a true one": Augustus Washington and the Liberian colonization movement -- Seeing a slave as a man: Frederick Douglass, racial progress, and daguerreian portraiture.
E-Resource:Electronic version:
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