The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902 by Audrey Doussot

“…What can be perceived, at first, as a mere backdrop to the representation of a human being can actually reveal much about the fashioning of an author’s literary identity through images. Portraits of Charles Dickens or George Bernard Shaw, for instance, testify to the importance of staging and accessories when seeking to construct authors’ images and to depict their universe as a materialization of their character and psychological interiority.…”
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