A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman
1st Edition
Published on 13. January 2000
289 pages
978-0-19-972808-4 (ISBN)
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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David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Baruch College in New York. His publications include Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (1995).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Walt Whitman, 1819-1892: A Brief Biography
- WHITMAN IN HIS TIME
- Lucifer and Ethiopia: Whitman, Race, and Poetics before the Civil War and After
- The Political Roots of Leaves of Grass
- Whitman and the Gay American Ethos
- Whitman and the Visual Arts
- Whitman the Democrat
- Illustrated Chronology
- Bibliographical Essay
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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