The camera and the press : American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype, Marcy J. Dinius

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Title remainder: American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype

Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294) and index

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Contents: The daguerreotype in Antebellum American popular print -- Daguerreian romanticism: The house of the seven gables and Gabriel Harrison's portraits -- "Some ideal image of the man and his mind": Melville's Pierre and Southworth & Hawes's Daguerreian aesthetic -- Slavery in black and white: daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom's Cabin -- "My daguerreotype shall be a true one": Augustus Washington and the Liberian colonization movement -- Seeing a slave as a man: Frederick Douglass, racial progress, and daguerreian portraiture

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