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Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman
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Hardcover
from Univ of Missouri Pr (May 1, 2008)
9780826217929 | details & prices | 250 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $45.00
About: '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.
About: '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.