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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Literature and photography--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and photography.

Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.

Authors, American.

Photography--United States--History--19th century.

Photography.

Visual perception in literature.

Photography in literature.

Autobiography.

Self-realization in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8262-6640-1

OCLC:

609204246