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"Resurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, Print the Legend offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book tells the story of how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their expanding nation."--Jacket.

"As London became the first major city of the nineteenth century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction, and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistent worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it. Commentators such as Wordsworth, Dickens, Mayhew, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Booth, and Wilde all struggled with the same questions about how to represent...

Factory Firls and Upperclass Seducers; the Molly Maguires and the Knights of Labor; Pinkertons and Tramps; Deadwood Dick and the James Gang: the 'dime novel' was the most widely read literature of the nineteenth century. It was also the contested tarrain of ideological class struggle, between middle-class moralism and the 'mechanic accents' of popular sensationalism. This is the first detailed study of the American dime novel phenomenom in an international...

Discusses the works of John Henry Newman, Charlotte Yonge, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Mrs. Oliphant, Emma Worboise, Hesba Stretton, Elizabeth Charles, George MacDonald, William Hale White, Edmund Gosse, Mrs. Lynn Linton, J.A. Froude, Geraldine Jewsbury, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, W.H. Mallock, Samuel Butler, Charles Maurice Davies, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Frederick William Farrar, Charles Kingsley, Frederick Dension Maurice, Walter Pater, Harriett...