TY - BOOK AU - Dinius,Marcy J. TI - The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype T2 - Material Texts SN - 9780812206340 AV - PS374.P43 -- D56 2012eb U1 - 810.9/357 PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Photography in literature-United States-History-19th century KW - Literature and photography-United States-History-19th century KW - American fiction-19th century-Illustrations-Public opinion KW - Daguerreotype-United States-History-19th century KW - Documentary photography-Social aspects-United States-History-19th century KW - Visual communication-United States-History-19th century KW - Public opinion-United States-History-19th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print -- 2. Daguerreian Romanticism: The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison's Portraits -- 3. ''Some ideal image of the man and his mind'': Melville's Pierre and Southworth & -- Hawes's Daguerreian Aesthetic -- 4. Slavery in Black and White: Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 5. ''My daguerreotype shall be a true one'': Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement -- 6. Seeing a Slave as a Man: Frederick Douglass, Racial Progress, and Daguerreian Portraiture -- Epilogue. ''An Old Daguerreotype'' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments N2 - Through a wide-ranging examination of antebellum images and literature, The Camera and the Press shows how Americans' first encounter with photography was more textual than visual. This thoroughly illustrated case study reexamines current theories on new media and reconnects print and visual culture in nineteenth-century America UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3441973 ER -