A Familiar Strangeness - American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945 - Paperback - 2010

States that photography's influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render identity and history homogeneous and reproducible. This title argues for the centrality of photography to writers commonly thought of as hostile to the camera.
Year of publication: 2010
Pagination: 304 pages, black & white illustrations
Format: Paperback