Mediating American autobiography
Subtitle: photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman
By: Sean Ross Meehan.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780826217929
Subjects: American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism; Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Visual perception in literature; Photography in literature; Autobiography; Self-realization in literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the reproduction of the author; title: Strange developments: photography's autobiography; title: Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking; title: Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register; title: Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered; title: Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography; title: Epilogue: future readers.