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Toth, Margaret A.

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Peripheral visions: Picturing human bodies in American literature and visual culture, 1900--1919.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Peripheral visions: Picturing human bodies in American literature and visual culture, 1900--1919./
Author:	Toth, Margaret A.
Description:	292 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-01, Section: A, page: 1840.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-01A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3341725
ISBN:	9780549973706

Peripheral visions: Picturing human bodies in American literature and visual culture, 1900--1919.
Toth, Margaret A.

Peripheral visions: Picturing human bodies in American literature and visual culture, 1900--1919. - 292 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-01, Section: A, page: 1840.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2008.

This dissertation interrogates tensions between visual and written representational practices in early-twentieth-century U.S. texts. Drawing on thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Jonathan Crary, I demonstrate that this period contributed to a significant paradigm shift in the way we think about and experience both vision and images. In the early decades of the twentieth century, image-oriented technology was entering mainstream life at a rapid pace: several optical devices popular in the nineteenth century were still prevalent; photography was undergoing major transformations; and the period had its own new visual form with which to contend, film. Such media, I suggest, monopolized realism, particularly when it came to representations of the human body. In two separate chapters on visual texts, one on the living human exhibits at Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition (1901) and the other on D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919), I show how different visual technologies functioned to organize and make intelligible visible bodily signs in support of dominant power structures.

ISBN: 9780549973706Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Peripheral visions: Picturing human bodies in American literature and visual culture, 1900--1919.
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520 $a By contrast, early-twentieth-century multiethnic fiction consistently problematized vision's alignment with scientific realism. In chapters on Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars (1900), Edith's Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905), and Maria Cristina Mena's short fiction (1910s), I argue that writers from the period were conscious---at times, hyper-conscious---of developments in visual technology and of that technology's ability to capture and re-present to a largely uncritical public images that masqueraded as "truth." While these particular writers are quite different in terms of voice, form, and target audience, they share one important literary impulse: they all deploy ocular-centric language to undermine the power visual media---including painting, photography, film, the mug shot, and medical illustrations---holds over representing human bodies. In many respects, their texts theorize the human body in ways we would now call postmodern; well in advance of cultural theorists like Foucault and Judith Butler, Chesnutt, Wharton, and Mena were exposing the body as a construct and inviting readers to consider whose interests such constructions serve.
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