Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 [Hardcover]

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. E Pluribus Unum: History and Photographic Difference 2. Hybrid Photographies in London Labour and the London Poor 3. Composing Gendered Selfhoods in Robert Louis Stevenson and Amy Levy 4. 'We do the rest': Photography, Labour and Howellsian Realism 5. 'Literature of Attractions': Jack London and Early Cinema Afterword Endnotes Bibliography Index

Elegantly, fluently written and based on both careful rereading and excellent archival research, this book is full of admirable moments. Clayton is extremely knowledgeable about nineteenth-century photographic techniques and their implications for how we read the literature of transatlantic modernity. - Denis Flannery, University of Leeds, UK

Owen Clayton is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln. His interests include transatlantic visual culture of the long nineteenth-century, workingclass studies and, increasingly, Anglo-Saxonism. He is a previous winner of the William Dean Howells Essay Prize, and the British Association of American Studies Ambassador's Award.