Edgar Allan Poe\u27s literary successes in the late 1830\u27s and early 1840\u27s coincided with the invention and remarkable popularity of the daguerreotype. In this study I examine the profound impact the advent of photography had on Poe\u27s writing. In an 1840 article for Alexander\u27s Weekly Messenger Poe called photography the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science. Through a close study of selected fiction, essays, and letters I argue that Poe was the first writer to explore the myriad possibilities of the newly emergent photographic world
From the 1840s, scientists were using photography to record and measure phenomena which lay beyond h...
This article considers the daguerreotype and electricity as the key driving forces in the early hist...
When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of dist...
Edgar Allan Poe\u27s literary successes in the late 1830\u27s and early 1840\u27s coincided with the...
Pen and ink portrait (undated) of American author, poet and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), know...
A general objective of this paper is to investigate the original juncture of photography (the daguer...
From sleeve: Edgar Allen Poe.This photograph shows an image of a daguerrotype of Edgar Allan Poe. T...
Scholars of nineteenth-century literature have been inspired by the multiplicity of connections that...
This dissertation explores the developing relationship between British literary culture and...
This thesis examines cultural and literary texts that trouble the status of the camera, the photogra...
Using a wide range of photographic as well as written texts from the nineteenth century, the dissert...
“Looking Through Words” explores the intersection of the literary and the visual in the nineteenth c...
"Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Immediacy" examines the influence of technical media on the a...
The first mention of photography in a novel comes in Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “The House of the Seven Ga...
1826 is the date attributed to the very first known photograph, Nicephore Niepce's "View from the W...
From the 1840s, scientists were using photography to record and measure phenomena which lay beyond h...
This article considers the daguerreotype and electricity as the key driving forces in the early hist...
When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of dist...
Edgar Allan Poe\u27s literary successes in the late 1830\u27s and early 1840\u27s coincided with the...
Pen and ink portrait (undated) of American author, poet and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), know...
A general objective of this paper is to investigate the original juncture of photography (the daguer...
From sleeve: Edgar Allen Poe.This photograph shows an image of a daguerrotype of Edgar Allan Poe. T...
Scholars of nineteenth-century literature have been inspired by the multiplicity of connections that...
This dissertation explores the developing relationship between British literary culture and...
This thesis examines cultural and literary texts that trouble the status of the camera, the photogra...
Using a wide range of photographic as well as written texts from the nineteenth century, the dissert...
“Looking Through Words” explores the intersection of the literary and the visual in the nineteenth c...
"Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Immediacy" examines the influence of technical media on the a...
The first mention of photography in a novel comes in Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “The House of the Seven Ga...
1826 is the date attributed to the very first known photograph, Nicephore Niepce's "View from the W...
From the 1840s, scientists were using photography to record and measure phenomena which lay beyond h...
This article considers the daguerreotype and electricity as the key driving forces in the early hist...
When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of dist...