TY - BOOK AU - Mehmi, Suneel PY - 2022 DA - 2022// TI - Law, literature, and the power of reading: literalism and photography in the nineteenth century T3 - Discourses of law PB - Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon KW - Law and literature KW - Law and art AB - Introduction -- Representation of photography, literalist reading and "the absence of higher truths" in art -- Photography's "fatal resemblances" : reading the invisibility of individuality and truth in the work of Wilkie Collins -- Representation and reading against photographic details in the work of Henry James -- Photograph albums in fiction - the illegitimate plots and counter-narratives of the photograph-book -- Conclusion. SN - 9780367760328 LA - English N1 - Suneel Mehmi ID - 1754907105 ER -