Meehan, Sean Ross,  1969- <br/><br/>
Mediating American autobiography  photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /  [electronic resource] : 
Sean Ross Meehan. 
 - Columbia :  University of Missouri Press,  c2008. 
 - xi, 250 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826217929 (alk. paper) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.<br/>Autobiography.<br/>Literature and photography--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Photography in literature.<br/>Photography--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Self-realization in literature.<br/>Visual perception in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.P43  / M44 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/492