Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 [electronic resource] /
Clayton, O.author.
Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Literature and photographies; Transatlantic photographies; Photography, travel, and social investigation; Structure; 1 E Pluribus Unum: History and Photographic Difference; Unity and photographic realism; Early-period photographies: photogenic drawing, heliotype, daguerreotype, calotype; Mid-period photographies: wet and dry collodion; Late photographies: gelatin and film; Spectacle and the rise of narrative film; 2 Hybrid Photographies in London Labour and the London Poor; Photography and objectivity
Mayhew and racial typologyGraven images; Individuality in London Labour's engravings; Photography, poverty, and the history of the picturesque; Mayhew and the noble picturesque; 'Petty Dabblers': collodion street photography; Mayhew and the future of picturesque photography; Conclusion; 3 Composing Gendered Selfhoods in Robert Louis Stevenson and Amy Levy; Levy, Stevenson, and photography; Seeing double: Muybridge and San Francisco; Projecting images in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Stevenson and composite photography; Jekyll in the darkroom
Escaping to the studio: photography as feminist utopiaEssentialism, photography, and performance; The gentleman and the lesbian: gender, sexuality, and selfhood; Conclusion; 4 'We do the rest': Photography, Labour, and Howellsian Realism; Rewriting Holgrave: Howells and The House of the Seven Gables; Illicit images: Bartley Hubbard and photographic portraiture; Photography and the 'Editor's Study'; London Films: Howells' 'reckless' book; Conclusion; 5 'Literature of Attractions': Jack London and Early Cinema; Photography and political spectacle in The People of the Abyss
Boxing and civilisation: The Abysmal BruteTheories of cinema in The Valley of the Moon; Conclusion; Afterword; The afterlife of photographies; Film as virtual reality; The 'pre-medium' age; 'Photographies' anticipating modernism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
America—Literatures.
British literature.
Photography.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Photography.