Susan E. Cook, Victorian Negatives. Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century

Susan E. Cook’s essay purports to tread on a tradition that joins photography and literature in an attempt to analyse what the often oversimplified term ‘realism’ covers. Alongside interdisciplinary studies of visual culture and fiction, she endeavours to demonstrate that the history of photography...

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Hovedforfatter: Gasquet, Lawrence
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2022
Online adgang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:Susan E. Cook’s essay purports to tread on a tradition that joins photography and literature in an attempt to analyse what the often oversimplified term ‘realism’ covers. Alongside interdisciplinary studies of visual culture and fiction, she endeavours to demonstrate that the history of photography contends with much more than the eye can meet; in other words, as history has shown, photography shares an uneasy relationship with the real, and literature can aptly testify to it, by exemplifyin...