An edition of Mediating American autobiography
(2008)
Mediating American autobiography
photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman
by Sean Ross Meehan
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"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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American Authors, American prose literature, Authors, American, Autobiography, Biography, History, History and criticism, Literature and photography, Photography, Photography in literature, Self-realization in literature, Visual perception in literature, American prose literature, history and criticism, Authors, biography, Photography, historyPlaces
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Mediating American autobiography: photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman
2008, University of Missouri Press
in English
0826217923 9780826217929
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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.
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