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Lincoln's smile and other enigmas / Alan Trachtenberg.
Van Pelt Library E169.1 .T7215 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trachtenberg, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- Photography--United States--History.
- Photography.
- History.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Mirror in the Marketplace: American Responses to the Daguerreotype, 1839-51 3
- 2 Mute Romance: Stories of a Daguerreotype 26
- 3 Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables 46
- 4 Lincoln's Smile: Ambiguities of the Face in Photography 69
- 5 Photographs as Symbolic History 86
- 6 Whitman's Lesson of the City 125
- 7 Reading the Gilded Age City 140
- 8 Horzatio Alger's Ragged Dick 154
- 9 The Form of Freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 167
- 10 Experiments in Another Country: Stephen Crane's City Sketches 185
- 11 Civic Idealism in Stone: Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building 206
- 12 Mumford in the 1920s: The Historian as Artist 225
- 13 Brooklyn Bridge as a Cultural Text 241
- 14 Photography/Cinematography 255
- 15 The FSA File: From Image to Story 265
- 16 Walker Evans's Fictions of the South 299
- 17 W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh: Rumors of a City 315
- 18 Realms of Shadow: Film Noir and the City 326
- 19 Things on Film: Wright Morris's Fields of Vision 342.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0809042975
- 9780809042975
- OCLC:
- 65521599
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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