Mediating American autobiography

Description:

"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.

subjects: American Authors,  American prose literature,  Authors, American,  Autobiography,  Biography,  History,  History and criticism,  Literature and photography,  Photography,  Photography in literature,  Self-realization in literature,  Visual perception in literature,  American prose literature, history and criticism,  Authors, biography,  Photography, history

Places: United States

Times: 19th century