Title: Mediating American autobiography
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: American Authors, American prose literature, Authors, American, Autobiography, Biography, History, History and criticism, Literature and photography, Photography, Photography in literature, Self-realization in literature, Visual perception in literature, American prose literature, history and criticism, Authors, biography, Photography, history
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS374.P43 M44 2008