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Signs of the things taken: Reading, writing and the nineteenth century photograph.
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- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Jennifer Marion.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature.
- Irish literature.
- British literature.
- Art.
- 0357.
- 0593.
- Local Subjects:
- 0357.
- 0593.
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 51-12A.
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Summary:
- Using a wide range of photographic as well as written texts from the nineteenth century, the dissertation draws on literary, legal and medical sources to consider relations between writing and photography. It contextualizes and reads photographs made in the Crimean War, pictures made for psychiatric research, and private collections of police photographs, in order to trace the construction of photography's meaning in various publicly scripted debates. Because photographs provide a potent metaphor for anxieties about the status of realism in the nineteenth century,they offer a site in literature for mapping as well as generating ambiguities and uncertainties. The dissertation reviews fictional treatments of the camera, its products, and its agents to discuss photography's early relations with literary realism and romance.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 4130.
- Supervisors: David J. DeLaura; Elaine M. Scarry.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175.
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