Literature and photography in transition, 1850-1915
By: Owen Clayton, Lecturer, University of Lincoln, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781137471499
Subjects: Literature and photography; History; Photography; English literature; Illustrations; American literature
Description: Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 looks at 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, each of whom deals with the transition between photographic methodologies.--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: E pluribus unum: history and photographic difference; title: Hybrid photographies in London labour and the London poor; title: Composing gendered selfhoods in Robert Louis Stevenson and Amy Levy; title: "We do the rest": photography, labour and Howellsian realism; title: "Literature of attractions": Jack London and early cinema; title: Afterword.