Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates
surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation. Victorian Negatives …

Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary
culture, and argues that the development of the photographic negative played an …

"… richly evocative… In encouraging its readers to imagine having never seen the material
object of a negative, not having had to imagine the eventual reversal of its lights and darks …

Susan e. Cook's Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in
the Nineteenth Century (2019) argues that the photographic negative, while marginalized in …

"… richly evocative… In encouraging its readers to imagine having never seen the material
object of a negative, not having had to imagine the eventual reversal of its lights and darks …