Immersive words : mass media, visuality, and American literature, 1839-1893 /

Jarenski, Shelly.

Immersive words : mass media, visuality, and American literature, 1839-1893 / Shelly Jarenski. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Disruptive aesthetics: Melville's daguerrean experiments -- Panoramic aesthetics and African American challenges -- Imagined tourism: Hawthorne's virtual Rome -- Spectacular display: the politics of exhibition aesthetics -- Coda.



9780817388164


Aesthetics, American.
Aesthetics in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic Books.

PS217 / .I464 2015