{"product_id":"the-camera-and-the-press-marcy-j-dinius-9780812244045","title":"The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In \u003ci\u003eThe Camera and the Press\u003c\/i\u003e, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. \u003ci\u003eThe Camera and the Press\u003c\/i\u003e presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e, Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e, Harriet Beecher Stowe's \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, and Frederick Douglass's \u003ci\u003eThe Heroic Slave\u003c\/i\u003e. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcy J. Dinius\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812244044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812244045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012","brand":"Marcy J. Dinius","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072805007615,"sku":"9780812244045","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f96b93c-ea5f-4d9c-bb90-7076a3ec04f8.jpg?v=1685444035","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-camera-and-the-press-marcy-j-dinius-9780812244045","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}