Historical Guide to Walt Whitman

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays in this volume explore new 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. still vital today. Zusammenfassung This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman's diverse contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Capsule Biography Lucifer and Ethiopia: Whitman, Race, and Poetics before and after the Civil War The Political Roots of the First Leaves of Grass Whitman's "Calamus": A Rhetorical Prehistory of the Gay American Ethos Whitman and the Visual Arts To Be Free and Rule: Whitman on the Razor's Edge Bibliographical Essay Dual Chronology

Product details

• Authors: David S. Reynolds, David S. (Distinguished Professor of Ame Reynolds
• Assisted by: David S. Reynolds (Editor), Reynolds David S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1999
• EAN: 9780195120820
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512082-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Historical Guides to American Authors; Historical Guides to American; Historical Guides to American Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, North America (USA and Canada), Literary studies: poetry and poets