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...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
Pynciau:
Mynediad Ar-lein:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.