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 photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography"--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2008
Biography
xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780826217929, 0826217923
181424170
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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