Eye to Eye with the Trilobite: Time's Texture and the Matter of Early Photography

Jennifer Green-Lewis is associate professor of English at the George Washington University, where she teaches courses on Victorian and Modernist fiction, frequently in light of the visual arts. Her most recent book, co-authored with her colleague Margaret Soltan, is Teaching Beauty: Delillo, Woolf, and Merrill (Palgrave 2008).The essay published here is a chapter from her new book-in-progress on photography and memory.