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Author:

Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-

Title:

Mediating American autobiography : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / Sean Ross Meehan.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and photography--United States--History--19th century.
Authors, American--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Photography--United States--History--19th century.
Visual perception in literature
Photography in literature
Autobiography
Self-realization in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0826217923 (alk. paper)
9780826217929 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)181424170

LCCN:

2007047083

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)