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1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| 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. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature. |
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19th century |
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Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and photography. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Authors, American -- Biography. |
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Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Photography. |
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Visual perception in literature.
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Visual perception in literature. |
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Photography in literature.
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Photography in literature. |
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Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
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Self-realization in literature.
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Self-realization in literature. |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Meehan, Sean Ross, 1969- Mediating American autobiography. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007047083 (OCoLC)181424170 |
| ISBN |
9780826266408 (electronic book) |
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0826266401 (electronic book) |
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9780826217929 (alkaline paper) |
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0826217923 (alkaline paper) |
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