The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 1. The Daguerreotype in Antebellum American Popular Print 12 2. Daguerreian Romanticism: The House of the Seven Gables and Gabriel Harrison’s Portraits 49 3. ‘‘Some ideal image of the man and his mind’’: Melville’s Pierre and Southworth & Hawes’s Daguerreian Aesthetic 86 4. Slavery in Black and White: Daguerreotypy and Uncle Tom’s Cabin 126 5. ‘‘My daguerreotype shall be a true one’’: Augustus Washington and the Liberian Colonization Movement 154 6. Seeing a Slave as a Man: Frederick Douglass, Racial Progress, and Daguerreian Portraiture 192 Epilogue. ‘‘An Old Daguerreotype’’ 233 Notes 239 Bibliography 279 Index 295 Acknowledgments 305 This page intentionally left blank ...