The Socio-Cultural Influence of the Daguerreotype and its Representation in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bayreuth (Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft), course: American History through Literature, language: English, abstract: The subject of this anonymous poem, published in theBoston Daily Evening Transcriptin 1850, is the daguerreotype, and early form of photography from the middle of...