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050 1 4 _aPS374.P43
_bM44 2008eb
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100 1 _aMeehan, Sean Ross,
_d1969-
245 1 0 _aMediating American autobiography
_h[electronic resource] :
_bphotography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /
_cSean Ross Meehan.
260 _aColumbia :
_bUniversity of Missouri Press,
_cc2008.
300 _axi, 250 p. :
_bill.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.
505 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.
520 _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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAmerican prose literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature and photography
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_xBiography
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aPhotography
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aVisual perception in literature.
650 0 _aPhotography in literature.
650 0 _aAutobiography.
650 0 _aSelf-realization in literature.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10277769
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
999 _c4943
_d4943