Through the Negative: The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Megan Williams

The Civil War was the first 'image war', as photographs of the battlefields became the dominant means for capturing an epochal historical moment. At the same time, writers used the Civil War to present both their notions of nation and their ideas about the new intersections between photography and literary form.

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 12, 2003