"Lincoln's Smiledemonstrates why Alan Trachtenberg has been the leading scholar in American studies for more than four decades." Â--Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved onesÂ--like the famous last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at the time of his second inauguralÂ--are downright puzzling, and it is their obscure, riddlelike aspects that draw his attention in the scintillating essays ofLincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas. With matchless authority, Trachtenberg moves from daguerreotypes to literary texts to subjects as diverse as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the early works of Lewis Mumford.

Alan Trachtenberg is the Neil Gray, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American studies at Yale University, where he taught for thirty-five years. His books include Shades of Hiawatha (H&W, 2004).

Preface	p. xi

Mirror in the Marketplace: American Responses to the Daguerreotype, 1839-51	p. 3
Mute Romance: Stories of a Daguerreotype	p. 26
Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables	p. 46
Lincoln's Smile: Ambiguities of the Face in Photography	p. 69
Photographs as Symbolic History	p. 86

Whitman's Lesson of the City	p. 125
Reading the Gilded Age City	p. 140
Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick	p. 154
The Form of Freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	p. 167
Experiments in Another Country: Stephen Crane's City Sketches	p. 185
Civic Idealism in Stone: Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building	p. 206

Mumford in the 1920s: The Historian as Artist	p. 225
Brooklyn Bridge as a Cultural Text	p. 241
Photography/Cinematography	p. 255
The FSA File: From Image to Story	p. 265
Walker Evans's Fictions of the South	p. 299
W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh: Rumors of a City	p. 315
Realms of Shadow: Film Noir and the City	p. 326
Things on Film: Wright Morris's Fields of Vision	p. 342
Acknowledgments	p. 365
Index	p. 367
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