Mediating American autobiography (Record no. 4943)
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| fixed length control field | 02422nam a2200409 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 810.9/492 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Meehan, Sean Ross, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Mediating American autobiography |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Columbia : |
| Name of publisher | University of Missouri Press, |
| Year of publication | c2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 250 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | American prose literature |
| Topical Term | Literature and photography |
| Topical Term | Authors, American |
| Topical Term | Photography |
| Topical Term | Visual perception in literature. |
| Topical Term | Photography in literature. |
| Topical Term | Autobiography. |
| Topical Term | Self-realization in literature. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10277769 |
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