LEADER 03097nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910454328003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8262-6640-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721455 035 $a(OCoLC)609204246 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10277769 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000200388 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954351 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200388 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10220316 035 $a(PQKB)10939999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571002 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571002 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10277769 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721455 100 $a20071114d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMediating American autobiography$b[electronic resource] $ephotography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /$fSean Ross Meehan 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8262-1792-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. 327 $aPrologue: 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aAmerican prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and photography$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPhotography$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aVisual perception in literature 606 $aPhotography in literature 606 $aAutobiography 606 $aSelf-realization in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and photography$xHistory 615 0$aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPhotography$xHistory 615 0$aVisual perception in literature. 615 0$aPhotography in literature. 615 0$aAutobiography. 615 0$aSelf-realization in literature. 676 $a810.9/492 700 $aMeehan$b Sean Ross$f1969-$0877800 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454328003321 996 $aMediating American autobiography$91959898 997 $aUNINA