Cook Victorian Negatives

Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7538-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Susan E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Daguerreotype: Dickens’s Counterfeit Presentment

2. The Solarized Print: Little Dorrit’s Sun and Shadow

3. The Forensic Photograph and the Cabinet Card: Failing to Observe with Sherlock Holmes

4. The Double Exposure: Double Negatives at the Fin de Siecle

5. The Postmortem Photograph: Photographing (in) Wessex

Conclusion Photographic Absence and the Vampire’s Modern Celebrity

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan E. Cook is Associate Professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University.