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

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

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Author / Creator:Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-
Imprint:Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
Description:xi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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.
American prose literature.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Autobiography.
Literature and photography.
Photography.
Photography in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
United States.
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7133370
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ISBN:9780826217929 (alk. paper)
0826217923 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.
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.

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