TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meehan,Sean Ross
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Mediating American autobiography: photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman 
SN  - 9780826217929 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS374.P43 M44 2008eb
U1  - 810.9/492 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Biography
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Literature and photography
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Photography in literature
KW  - Photography
KW  - Self-realization in literature
KW  - Visual perception in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "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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