Whitman''s Ecstatic Union - Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass

Informationen zum Autor Michael Sowder Klappentext First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Re-reading Leaves of Grass within the context of a nineteenth-century evangelical culture of conversion, this book uncovers how the sacred seductions of Whitman's poetry sought to redeem the nation through the ecstatic conversions of its readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 Out of the Antebellum Culture of Conversion; Chapter 2 Negation, Theophany, Ecstasy; Chapter 3 Welcome; Chapter 4 Love’s Apocalypse; con Conclusion;

Product details

• Authors: Michael Sowder, Sowder Michael
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2005
• EAN: 9780415972154
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97215-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets