Whitman Among the Bohemians

For several years just before and after 1860, Walt Whitman frequented Pfaff's beer cellar in downtown Manhattan. The basement bar was at the centre of mid-nineteenth-century American bohemian activity and was patronized by writers, artists, musicians, actors, intellectuals, and radicals. In telling the story of these intersecting social and professional links that converged at Pfaff's, the essays in this volume demonstrate just how much we can learn about Whitman and his work by viewing him within the context of American bohemia.

About the author

Joanna Levin is an associate professor of English at Chapman University, USA. She is the author of Bohemia in America, 1858-1920, winner of the 2010 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. She lives in Tustin, California, USA. Edward Whitley is an associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA. He is the author of American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet and the co-editor of The Vault at Pfaff 's, a digital archive about the bohemian writers and artists of antebellum New York. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna (EDT)/ Whitley Levin
• Assisted by: Joanna Levin (Editor), Edward Whitley (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9781609382728
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-272-8
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Iowa Whitman (Paperback); Iowa Whitman Series; Iowa Whitman; Iowa Whitman Series; Iowa Whitman (Paperback)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies