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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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
c2008.
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Sommario:
- 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.