02424nam a2200409 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003100112040002100143035002100164043001200185050002600197082001800223100003000241245013900271260005400410300002300464504006400487505036700551520038200918533015201300650006801452650007001520650005701590650005501647650003701702650003101739650001901770650003601789655002901825710001701854856012601871999001701997ebr10277769CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||071114s2008    moua    sb   s001 0 eng    z  2007047083  z9780826217929 (alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)609204246  an-us---14aPS374.P43bM44 2008eb04a810.9/4922221 aMeehan, Sean Ross,d1969-10aMediating American autobiographyh[electronic resource] :bphotography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /cSean Ross Meehan.  aColumbia :bUniversity of Missouri Press,cc2008.  axi, 250 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.0 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.  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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aAmerican prose literaturey19th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aLiterature and photographyzUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 0aAuthors, AmericanxBiographyxHistory and criticism. 0aPhotographyzUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 0aVisual perception in literature. 0aPhotography in literature. 0aAutobiography. 0aSelf-realization in literature. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10277769zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c19781d19781