In visible light : photography and the American writer, 1840-1940 / Carol Shloss.

Main entry:

Shloss, Carol.

Title & Author:

In visible light : photography and the American writer, 1840-1940 / Carol Shloss.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Description:

viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and daguerreotypy : disinterested vision -- Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn : the frame of prevision -- Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Riis : envisioning "the other half" -- John Dos Passos and the Soviet cinema : separate frames of truth -- James Agee and Walker Evans : representing poverty during the Great Depression -- John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange : the surveillance of dissent -- Norman Mailer and combat photography : exposure under fire.

Summary:

Nathaniel Hawthorne and daguerreotypy : disinterested vision -- Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn : the frame of prevision -- Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Riis : envisioning "the other half" -- John Dos Passos and the Soviet cinema : separate frames of truth -- James Agee and Walker Evans : representing poverty during the Great Depression -- John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange : the surveillance of dissent -- Norman Mailer and combat photography : exposure under fire.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195038932 (alk. paper)
9780195038934 (alk. paper)

Subject:

American fiction History and criticism.
Literature and photography United States.
Realism in literature.
Roman américain Histoire et critique.
Littérature et photographie États-Unis.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
American fiction.
Literature and photography.
Fotografie
Literatur
Littérature.
Réalité Dans la littérature.
United States.
USA
Fiction in English American writers Influence of photography

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Photography and the American writer.

Invisible light

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205150
Call No.: PS374.P43 S3 1987
Status: Available

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