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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454328003321

Autore

Meehan Sean Ross <1969->

Titolo

Mediating American autobiography [[electronic resource] ] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / / Sean Ross Meehan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8262-6640-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/492

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.