Victorian negatives : literary culture and the dark side of photography in the nineteenth century /
Victorian negatives :: literary culture and the dark side of photography in the 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. Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary culture, and argues that the development of the phot...

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Main Author: Cook, Susan E., 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and photography > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Photography > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Realism in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et photographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et technologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Photographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
English.
Great Britain.
Europe.
HISTORY.
19th Century.
Modern.
History.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
European.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
English literature
Literature and photography
Literature and society
Literature and technology
Photography
Realism in literature
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation. Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary culture, and argues that the development of the photographic negative played an instrumental role in their confluence. The negative is a technology that facilitates photographic reproduction by way of image inversion, and Susan E. Cook argues that this particular photographic technology influenced the British realist novel and literary celebrity culture, as authors grappled with the technology of inversion and reproduction in their lives and works. The book analyzes literary works by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. W. Hornung, Cyril Bennett, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, and Bram Stoker, and puts readings of those works into conversations with distinct photographic forms, including the daguerreotype, solarization, forensic photography, common cabinet cards, double exposures, and postmortem portraiture. In addition to literary texts, the book analyzes photographic discourses from letters and public writings of photographers and the nineteenth-century press, as well as discussions and debates surrounding Victorian celebrity authorship. The book's focus on the negative both illuminates an oft-marginalized part of the history of photography and demonstrates the way in which this history is central to Victorian literary culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781438475387
1438475381

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