Through the Negative by Megan Williams
The Civil War was the first 'image war', as photographs of the battlefields became the dominant means for capturing an epochal historical moment. At the same time, writers used the Civil War to present both their notions of nation and their ideas about the new intersections between photography and literary form. Through The Negative offers an account of the collisions between print and visual culture in the work of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and Crane as they responded to and incorporated the work of such photographers as George Barnard, Alexander Gardner and Jacob Riis. Through the Negative examines how key nineteenth-century American writers attempted to combat, understand, and incorporate the advent of photography in their fiction. In so doing, Megan Williams demonstrates how analyzing the impact of photography on the diverse narrative histories of the nineteenth century yields fresh insights about contemporary art and writing, as the photographic image continues to shape national consciousness.-
Literature and Development in North Africa
- Voice and Song in Contemporary Greek Myth Retellings
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Joseph Conrad and Honor
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Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
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Authoring the Self
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Revised Lives
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Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor
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Between Profits and Primitivism
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Parsing the City
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Racial Blasphemies
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New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature and Culture
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Representations of Language Learning and Literacy
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Poetry and Culture in Britain, Canada and the United States
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Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence
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Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel
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Reading Words into Worlds
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Batman and the Shadows of Modernity
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Serial Fiction in the Western World
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Menetekel
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Cultural Evolution and its Discontents
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The Other Orpheus
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Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning
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Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
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Language in Literature
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Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
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Detective Fiction on the Case of Community
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Transcending Postmodernism
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Female Agents in the Male World of Cold War Spy Novels
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Bangladeshi Novels in English
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Writing the City
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Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing
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Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare
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Embodying Beauty
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The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America
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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel
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Fictional Feminism
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Dissenting Fictions
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Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry
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The Self in the Cell
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The Slave in the Swamp
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The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature
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Double Trouble
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Strange Cases
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Like Parchment in the Fire
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Novel Notions
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The Pictorial Third
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Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
Megan Williams (PhD, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University) (Author)
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780415966733 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415966736 |
| Title | Through the Negative |
| Author | Megan Williams |
| Series | Literary Criticism And Cultural Theory |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2003-11-12 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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