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Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

By Mark Edmundson

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780674258983
DOI
10.4159/9780674258983
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12590748 bytes)
Pages
240\232
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 10:15:57

Description

Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as “feudal”—obsessed with the noble and great—Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War.

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