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Informationen zum Autor Alan Trachtenberg Klappentext " Lincoln's Smile demonstrates why Alan Trachtenberg has been the leading scholar in American studies for more than four decades." -Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones-like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inaugural-are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddlelike aspects that draw his attention in the scintillating essays of Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas . With matchless authority, Trachtenberg moves from daguerreotypes to literary texts to subjects as diverse as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the early works of Lewis Mumford. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Mirror in the Marketplace: American Responses to the Daguerreotype, 1839-51 2 Mute Romance: Stories of a Daguerreotype 3 Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables 4 Lincoln's Smile: Ambiguities of the Face in Photography 5 Photographs as Symbolic History 6 Whitman's Lesson of the City 7 Reading the Gilded Age City 8 Horzatio Alger's Ragged Dick 9 The Form of Freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 10 Experiments in Another Country: Stephen Crane's City Sketches 11 Civic Idealism in Stone: Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building 12 Mumford in the 1920s: The Historian as Artist 13 Brooklyn Bridge as a Cultural Text 14 Photography/Cinematography 15 The FSA File: From Image to Story 16 Walker Evans's Fictions of the South 17 W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh: Rumors of a City 18 Realms of Shadow: Film Noir and the City 19 Things on Film: Wright Morris's Fields of Vision
