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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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 |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780826266408 0826266401 |