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Mediating American autobiography photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman /

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"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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Main Author: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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