{"product_id":"confounding-images-9781512808872","title":"Confounding Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eSusan Williams recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography in an important rereading of American fiction in the decades preceding the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rise of photography occurred simultaneously with the rapid expansion of magazine publication in America, and Williams analyzes the particular role that periodicals such as Godey's \u003ci\u003eLady's Book\u003c\/i\u003e, Burton's \u003ci\u003eGentleman's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and Atkinson's \u003ci\u003eCasket\u003c\/i\u003e played in defining how photography was received. At the center of the book are readings of a stunning array of fiction by forgotten and canonical writers alike, including Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and Sarah Hale, as well as extended interpretations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eHouse of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Marble Faun\u003c\/i\u003e and Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a concluding section, Williams offers a view of the fictional portrait in the later nineteenth century, when the proliferation of illustrated books once again transformed the relation between word and image in American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan S. Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48292113809659,"sku":"9781512808872","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781512808872.jpg?v=1772484169","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/confounding-images-9781512808872","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}