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

Publication Info.	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
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Description	1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.
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.
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Subject	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.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American prose literature. (OCoLC)fst00807422
	Authors, American -- Biography. (OCoLC)fst00821768
	Autobiography. (OCoLC)fst00822597
	Literature and photography. (OCoLC)fst01000089
	Photography. (OCoLC)fst01061714
	Photography in literature. (OCoLC)fst01061863
	Self-realization in literature. (OCoLC)fst01111912
	Visual perception in literature. (OCoLC)fst01168077
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969- Mediating American autobiography. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007047083 (OCoLC)181424170
ISBN	9780826266408 (electronic bk.)
	0826266401 (electronic bk.)

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