1.

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696201403321

Autore

Eggleston Jack R (Jack Randolph), <1967->

Titolo

Long-term ground-water levels and transmissivity in the Blackstone River basin, northern Rhode Island [[electronic resource] /] / by Jack R. Eggleston, Peter E. Church, and Jeffrey R. Barbaro ; prepared in cooperation with the Rhode Island Water Resources Board

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic text (iv, 48 pages + 2 maps) : HTML, digital, PDF file

Collana

Scientific investigations report ; ; 2006-5295

Altri autori (Persone)

ChurchPeter E (Peter Eaton)

BarbaroJeffrey R <1960-> (Jeffrey Ralph)

Soggetti

Water table - Rhode Island

Water table - Blackstone River Watershed (Mass. and R.I.)

Groundwater - Rhode Island

Groundwater - Blackstone River Watershed (Mass. and R.I.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on Aug. 6, 2007).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 10).



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00192031

Autore

BECKER, Seymour

Titolo

Nobility and privilege in late imperial Russia / Seymour Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dekalb, : Northern Illinois Univerasity Press, 1985. xiv, 259 p. ; 23 cm.

ISBN

08-7580-133-1

Soggetti

NOBILTA' - Russia - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia