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A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (Historical Guides to American Authors)

By David S. Reynolds

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0195120817, 9780195120813, 9781423760009
LCC
PS3238 .H57 2000
Open Library ID
OL31759M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15734428 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
288\289
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts, and the idea of democracy. The poet who emerges from this volume is no "solitary singer," distanced from his culture, but what he himself called "the age transfigured," fully enmeshed in his times and addressing issues that are still vital today.

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