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Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition / ix
Acknowledgments / xxv
Introduction / xxvii
PART ONE
The Condition of Future Development
Chapter 1: Whitman's Transformed Eve . 3
PART TWO
Culture of Imitation
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Introduction / 33
Chapter 2: A Hieroglyphic World: The Furnishing of
Identity in Victorian Culture + 40
Chapter 3: Photography and the Artifice of Realism ./ 73
Chanter 4: The Romance of the Real / 103
PART THREE
Inventing Authenticity
Introduction / 141
Chapter 5: The Real Thing and the Machine-made World / 157
Chapter 6: The Camera and the Verification of Fact / 198
Chapter 7: Not “Realism” but Reality Itself / 240
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Jogue: The Dump Is Full of Images /
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Notes / 301
Bibliography / 341
index / 375