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1st ed.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017

1 online resource (233 pages)

ISBN 9781421423135 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781421423128

Print version: Shrum, Rebecca K. In the Looking Glass Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2017 ISBN 9781421423128

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Evolving Technology of the Looking Glass -- 2. First Glimpses: Mirrors in Seventeenth-Century New England -- 3. Looking-Glass Ownership in Early America -- 4. Reliable Mirrors and Troubling Visions: Nineteenth-Century White Understandings of Sight -- 5. Fashioning Whiteness -- 6. Mirrors in Black and Red -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Focusing on how mirrors were acquired in America and by whom, as well as the profound influence mirrors had, both individually and collectively, on the groups that embraced them, In the Looking Glass is a piece of innovative textual and visual scholarship..

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