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

By: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008Description: xi, 250 p. : illSubject(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 LOC classification: PS374.P43 | M44 2008Online resources: 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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