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

• Autore: Meehan Sean Ross <1969->
• 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