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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Autor principal: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
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Resumo:"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.
Descrição Física:xi, 250 p. : ill.
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.