02422nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10277769 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 071114s2008 moua sb s001 0 eng 2007047083 9780826217929 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)609204246 n-us--- PS374.P43 M44 2008eb 810.9/492 22 Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969- Mediating American autobiography [electronic resource] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / Sean Ross Meehan. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008. xi, 250 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. 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. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10277769 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 4943 4943