Mediating American autobiography [electronic resource] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / Sean Ross Meehan.
2008
PS374.P43 M44 2008eb
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Mediating American autobiography [electronic resource] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / Sean Ross Meehan.
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9780826217929 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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PS374.P43 M44 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/492
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.
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Table of 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.
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.