Confounding images : photography and portraiture in antebellum American fiction / Susan S. Williams.

Main entry:

Williams, Susan S.

Title & Author:

Confounding images : photography and portraiture in antebellum American fiction / Susan S. Williams.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.
Introduction: Confounding Images -- 1. The Portrait and the Social Construction of Ekphrasis -- 2. "The Inconstant Daguerreotype": The Narrative of Early Photography -- 3. The Haunted Portrait and Models of Authorship in Periodicals and Gift Books -- 4. Hawthorne, Daguerreotypy, and The House of the Seven Gables -- 5. Melville's Pierre and the Burden of Imitation -- 6. The Photography of Travel: Reading The Marble Faun -- Afterword: Photography and Portraiture in the Later Nineteenth Century.
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Summary:

In an important rereading of American fiction in the decades preceding the Civil War, Williams (English, Ohio State University) recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography. Williams contends that in reaction to photography's challenge to the pictorial function of narrative, authors filled their pages with descriptions of fictional portraits--fanciful and romantic, often haunted, magic, or demonic, and generally resistant to straightforward representation. She provides readings and interpretations from forgotten as well as canonical writers as examples. c. Book News Inc.

ISBN:

0812233972 (alk. paper)
9780812233971 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. House of the seven gables.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Marble faun.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Pierre.
House of the seven gables (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
Marble faun (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
Pierre (Melville, Herman)
American fiction 19th century History and criticism.
Literature and photography United States History 19th century.
Portrait photography United States History 19th century.
Art and literature United States History 19th century.
Ekphrasis.
Roman américain 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature et photographie États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Portraits (Photographie) États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Art et littérature États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
ekphrasis.
American fiction.
Art and literature.
Literature and photography.
Portrait photography.
Roman
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Bildnismalerei (Motiv)
Porträtphotographie (Motiv)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 196380
Call No.: ID PS374.P43.W55; ID:97-B3858
Status: Available

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