Mediating American autobiography [[electronic resource] ] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / / Sean Ross Meehan
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Meehan Sean Ross <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Mediating American autobiography [[electronic resource] ] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / / Sean Ross Meehan
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/492 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mediating American autobiography |
| ISBN: | 0-8262-6640-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454328003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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