The camera and the press [electronic resource] : American visual and print culture in the age of the daguerreotype / Marcy J. Dinius.
Series: Material textsPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 308 p. : illISBN:- 9780812244045 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780812206340 (e-book)
- Photography in literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- American fiction -- 19th century -- Illustrations -- Public opinion
- Daguerreotype -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Documentary photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Visual communication -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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- PS374.P43 D56 2012eb

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Northwestern University) under title: The camera and the pen: daguerreotypy and literature in antebellum America.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.