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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.
ISBN:9780826266408
0826266401