A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945

Index

277 Index abolition movement, 244n44 Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 12, 22–23, 116–21 passim, 131–33, 136, 138–51 Adorno, Theodor, 8–9, 215 American, The (James), 75–76 American Notes (Hawthorne), 53, 59 American Scene, The (James), 71–74, 76–77, 79, 99, 106, 113 American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 12, 210–213 Anderson, Sherwood, 199 Armstrong, Carol, 45, 48 Armstrong, Nancy, 20, 88, 104, 224n38, 236n29, 240n68, 246n23 Arnheim, Rudolf, 17, 42, 226n1 “Art of Fiction, The” (James), 78, 234n4 Aspern Papers, The (James), 73, 75, 101–2, 106 Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein), 206 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (J. W. Johnson), 188, 249–50n62 Awkward, Michael, 248n26, 253n95 278 Index Awkward Age, The (James), 12, 22, 73, 75, 89–98, 99, 101, 103, 106, 110 Babbage, Charles, 244–45n44 Balázs, Béla, 222–23n23 Baldwin, Doug, 244n42 Baldwin, James, 184–86 Balzac, Honoré de, 32, 227n13 Banta, Martha, 84 Barthes, Roland, 6, 136, 193–94; on beauty, 237n39. See also Camera Lucida Batchen, Geoffrey, 29, 232n76 Baudelaire, Charles, 78, 235n15, 237n38 Baudrillard, Jean, 18 Baym, Nina, 34 Bazin, André, 17 beauty, tautological concept of, 237n39 Bede, Cuthbert, 55 Bellamy, Edward, 229n38 Bellis, Peter, 231n66 Benjamin, Walter, 4, 121–22, 137, 201, 221n8, 222–23n23, 238– 39n55, 239–40n64 Benston, Kimberly W., 245n50 Bergson, Henri, 243n34 Bersani, Leo, 31–32, 34, 51, 103, 171 Bérubé, Michael, 171, 173 “Beyond” (Faulkner), 118, 122, 139 Billy Budd (Melville), 128 Black Boy (Wright), 246n51 Black No More (Schuyler), 246–47n7 Blair, Sara, 80 Blanchot, Maurice, 67–68, 123 blankness, as trope, 14, 23, 41; in Faulkner, 117, 146–53, 241n17; in James, 72–74, 76, 77–78, 85 Boas, Franz, 10, 167–68 Bogardus, Ralph, 235n23 Bostonians, The (James), 76, 172 Boucicault, Dion, 211 Bourdieu, Pierre, 6–7, 230n48 Boyd, Valerie, 167, 251n81 Bradley, David, 250–51n68 Brady, Mathew, 63 Bridge, Horatio, 62, 231n70 Brooks, Cleanth, 144, 243n34 Brooks, Peter, 148 Brown, Bill, 7, 154, 220n6, 250n65 Brown, Gillian, 61, 228n27 Brown, Sterling, 168 Burgess, N. G., 228n32 Cadava, Eduardo, 121–22, 232n80 Caffin, Charles, 79 Caillois, Roger, 253n97 Callahan, John, 157 calotype, 28–30, 48 Camera and the Pencil, The (Root), 44–47, 230–31n57 “camera eye,” 2 Camera Lucida (Barthes), 13, 92, 195, 200–201, 203; and absence, 123; and public versus private, 56–57; and referentiality, 17, 31, 118–19, 125; and theme of double, 12 camera obscura, 129 Cameron, Sharon, 51–52, 231n65, 239n62 Index 279 cannibalism, as trope, 53–57 Carby, Hazel, 168–69, 186 Carpenter, Meta, 244n42 Cash, W. J., 243n34 Cather, Willa: “The Novel Démeublé,” 222n12; O Pioneers!, 225n63; “When I Knew Stephen Crane,” 220n6 Cavell, Stanley, 18 “Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke” (Ellison), 251n75 “Character” (Emerson), 233n89 “Characteristics of Negro Expression ” (Hurston), 161–62, 169, 198–99, 253n90 Chesnutt, Charles, 251n74 Clarke, Deborah, 158 Cobb, Michael, 243n37 Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 108–10, 235n23 Cofield, J. R., 240–41n6 Collins, Carvel, 244n42 composite photography, 12–13, 23, 110, 116, 151–53, 246n61 Conrad, Joseph, 185 Crane, Stephen, 26; “The Five White Mice” 1–4, 9, 23–26, 129, 215, 217, 226n66; Maggie, 220n6; “The Monster,” 182–83; The Red Badge of Courage, 2, 73, 220n6 Crary, Jonathan, 15, 129 Crisis, 247n11 Culver, Stuart, 234n4 “Custom House, The” (Hawthorne), 49, 232n78 Daguerre, Louis, 28–29, 37, 38, 48 daguerreotype, 22, 28–38 passim, 43–44, 46, 48, 62, 78–79; in Pierre, 40–41 “Daguerreotype, The” (Poe), 16 Daily Tribune, 43 Davidson, Cathy N., 36, 59 Davis, Thadious, 117 DeKoven, Marianna, 208, 254n25 Deleuze, Gilles, 98–99, 250n70 de Man, Paul, 242n30 Dickens, Charles, 8 Dimock, Wai-Chee, 41 Doane, Mary-Anne, 244n42 Dolis, John, 227 double, the, 12, 30–31, 39, 214–17 double consciousness, 164, 196–97 Douglass, Frederick, 155, 160, 188, 194; “Pictures and Progress,” 11, 17, 155–56, 233n85 Doyle, Laura, 244n41 Dreiser, Theodore, 4; An American Tragedy 12, 210–213; Sister Carrie, 176 Dryden, Edgar, 39, 231n64 Du Bois, W. E. B., 164, 196–97, 247n11 duCille, Ann, 247n15 Dust Tracks on a Road (Hurston), 161, 165, 169, 189–90, 248–49n43 Duyckinck, E. A., 49 Edel, Leon, 81 ekphrasis, 5, 19, 21, 31, 116, 119, 140–44, 151 Elliott, Michael, 10 Ellison, Ralph: “Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke,” 251n75; Invisible 280 Index Ellison, Ralph (continued) Man, 155, 168, 171, 189, 252n83; “Richard Wright’s...