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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue: The Reproduction of the Author
1. Strange Developments: Photography's Autobiography
2. Like Iodine to Light: Emerson's Photographic Thinking
3. Pencil of Nature: Thoreau's Photographic Register
4. Pictures in Progress: The Claims of Frederick Douglass, Photographically Considered
5. Specimen Daze: Whitman's Photobiography
Epilogue: Future Readers
Bibliography
Index