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Mediating American autobiography : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
Subjects:
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 literature.
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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.
Physical Description:xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.
ISBN:9780826217929 (alk. paper)
0826217923 (alk. paper)