Mediating American autobiography photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /
"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 photo...
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
c2008.
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| Online adgang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | xi, 250 p. : ill. |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. |