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Informationen zum Autor Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American literature at the University of South Carolina. An authority on Transcendentalism and textual and bibliographical studies, he has written, edited, coauthored, or coedited some fifty books, including Whitman in His Own Time (Iowa paperback, 2000), Emerson in His Own Time (Iowa, 2003), and Fuller in Her Own Time (Iowa, 2008). Klappentext (at)font-face ( font-family: "Times"; )(at)font-face ( font-family: "Palatino"; )p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal ( margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; )div.Section1 ( page: Section1; ) Focusing on actual publications "by" Whitman rather than those "about" him, Joel Myerson's painstakingly compiled supplement to his 1993" Walt Whitman: A Descriptive Bibliography" includes almost twenty years of newly discovered and updated materials that will be invaluable to Whitman scholars. The entries describe in detail the various forms of Whitman's books, newspaper articles, broadsheets, reprints, translations, and so on. Myerson includes facsimiles of title pages as well as information on pagination, illustrations, dimensions, contents, publication history, typography, paper, binding, and dust jackets.
