New Walt Whitman Studies - Whitman Studie

List of contents

Introduction Matt Cohen; Part I. The New Life of the New Forms: Aesthetics, Disciplines Politics: 1. Whitman's deathbed radicalism M. Caterina Bernardini and Kenneth Price; 2. Whitman, women, and privacy Justine Murison; 3. The poetics of a new science: 'song of myself' as sociology Timothy Robbins; 4. World wide Walt: making and marketing Whitman's global persona Thoren Optiz; 5. Intimacies of place Mark Rifkin; Part II. Wet Paper between Us: New Reading Methods: 6. A people's pocket Whitman: the history of sexuality and the history of the book Jay Grossman; 7. 'All thy wide geographies': reading Whitman's epistolary database Alex Ashland, Stefan Schöberlein and Stephanie Blalock; 8. Haptic feelings Erica Fretwell; 9. Walt Whitman's leaves Nicole Gray and Matt Cohen; Part III. A Kosmos: The Critical Imagination: 10. Critique is not that old, composition is not that new: Sadakichi Hartmann's conversations with Walt Whitman Andrew Leong; 11. Reading Whitman in disenchanted times Christopher Castiglia; 12. 'Permit to speak at every hazard': Whitman's grammar of risk Peter Riley; 13. Whitman getting old Ed Folsom.

About the author

Matt Cohen is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He works in the fields of early American literature, digital archives, and the history of the book. His essays have appeared in PMLA, American Literary History, The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Book History, among others. He is the author or editor of five books, including most recently Whitman's Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution (2017).

Summary

This book is for students and scholars of American literature. Asking how Whitman can be relevant in the era of electronic communication and global political upheaval, it features essays from a variety of literary and historical approaches. It includes revelatory new work from both established and emerging Whitman scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Matt (University of Texas Austin) Cohen
• Assisted by: Matt Cohen (Editor), Matt (University of Texas Austin) Cohen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108419062
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41906-2
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Twenty-First-Century Critical; Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: poetry and poets