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Informationen zum Autor Walt Whitman (1819–1892) was a poet, journalist, and essayist. His enormously influential poetry includes the collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855.Christopher Castiglia is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst.Glenn Hendler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Fordham University (2006–07). He is the author of Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and a coeditor of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture. Klappentext A reprint of a novel and other temperance writings by Walt Whitman, with an introduction and explanatory notes by the editors. Zusammenfassung Tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans! an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls! theatres! and above all taverns! he gradually becomes a drunkard. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix I. Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate A Tale of the Times 1 II. Supplementary Texts The Madman 117 The Child and the Profligate 123 An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois, On the 22nd Day of February, 1842 135 Bibliography 145
