Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century

by Susan E. Cook

Book Overview

Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary culture, and argues that the development of the photographic negative played an instrumental role in their confluence. The negative is a technology that facilitates photographic reproduction by way of image inversion, and Susan E. Cook argues that this particular photographic technology influenced the British realist novel and literary celebrity culture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438475365
• ISBN13: 9781438475363
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"