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

"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...

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 250 p. :; ill.
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245 1 0 |a Mediating American autobiography  |h [electronic resource] :  |b photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /  |c Sean Ross Meehan. 
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300 |a xi, 250 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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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