American romanticism and the idea of light

This thesis argues that the technical and aesthetic appropriation of light in American Romantic literature draws on a network of relations between time, space and subjectivity that is specifically linked to the invention of photography. It argues that, after the Enlightenment, after its advances in...

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Main Author: Thwaites, Sarah Louise
Published: University of East Anglia 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533727