Abstract
[Jarenski] (Univ. of Michigan, Dearborn) considers how mid-19thcentury visual technologies/methods such as daguerreotype and panorama painting prompted writers including Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, Nathaniel Haw'thorne, and Sarah Orne Jewett to innovate narrative techniques in order "to create aesthetic experiences in their texts that felt cognitively similar to the experiences readers were having with visual technologies." This volume joins a growing body of scholarship...