03097nam 2200685 a 450 991045432800332120200520144314.00-8262-6640-1(CKB)1000000000721455(OCoLC)609204246(CaPaEBR)ebrary10277769(SSID)ssj0000200388(PQKBManifestationID)11954351(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200388(PQKBWorkID)10220316(PQKB)10939999(MiAaPQ)EBC3571002(Au-PeEL)EBL3571002(CaPaEBR)ebr10277769(EXLCZ)99100000000072145520071114d2008 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMediating American autobiography[electronic resource] photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /Sean Ross MeehanColumbia University of Missouri Pressc20081 online resource (265 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8262-1792-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.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."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.American prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and photographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAuthors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticismPhotographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryVisual perception in literaturePhotography in literatureAutobiographySelf-realization in literatureElectronic books.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and photographyHistoryAuthors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticism.PhotographyHistoryVisual perception in literature.Photography in literature.Autobiography.Self-realization in literature.810.9/492Meehan Sean Ross1969-877800MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454328003321Mediating American autobiography1959898UNINA