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050 00 $a PS374.P43 $b M44 2008
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100 1  $a Meehan, Sean Ross, $d 1969-
245 10 $a Mediating American autobiography : $b photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / $c Sean Ross Meehan.
260    $a Columbia : $b University of Missouri Press, $c c2008.
300    $a xi, 250 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm.
520    $a "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.
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.
650  0 $a American prose literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Literature and photography $z United States $x History $y 19th century.
650  0 $a Authors, American $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism.
650  0 $a Photography $z United States $x History $y 19th century.
650  0 $a Visual perception in literature
650  0 $a Photography in literature
650  0 $a Autobiography
650  0 $a Self-realization in literature
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