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Megan Williams
Through the Negative [EPUB ebook]
The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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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.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9781135887407 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2003 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5299677 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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