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Literature and photography in transition, 1850-1915 / Owen Clayton, lecturer, University of Lincoln, UK.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Clayton, Owen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:
Literature and photography > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and photography > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Photography > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > Illustrations.
Literature and photography > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and photography > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 19th century > Illustrations.
American literature.
English literature.
Literature and photography.
Photography.
Great Britain.
United States.
History.
Illustrated works.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • E pluribus unum: history and photographic difference
  • Hybrid photographies in London labour and the London poor
  • Composing gendered selfhoods in Robert Louis Stevenson and Amy Levy
  • "We do the rest": photography, labour and Howellsian realism
  • "Literature of attractions": Jack London and early cinema
  • Afterword.

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