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Mediating American autobiography [electronic resource] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / Sean Ross Meehan.

By: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008Description: xi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism | Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Visual perception in literature | Photography in literature | Autobiography | Self-realization in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/492 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers.
Summary: "Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.

Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers.

"Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography"--Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.