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.

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.