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

Burrows argues for the centrality of photography to a set of writers commonly thought of as hostile to the camera-including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston. The photographic metaphors and allusions to the medium that appear throughout these writers' work demonstrate the ways in which one representational form actually influences another--by changing how artists conceive of identity, history, and art itself.

Author(s): Stuart Burrows
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Pages: 302
Categories: Literary Criticism