Walt Whitman and the American Reader

A far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer.

List of contents

Preface; Part I. Whitman and the Conditions for Authorship in Nineteenth-century America: 1. Homage to the tenth muse; 2. The evolution of American literary culture, 1820-50; 3. Going forth into literary America; 4. 'I am a writer, for the press and otherwise'; Part II. Whitman, Leaves of Grass and the Reader: 5. Intentions and ambitions; 6. Whitman and the reader, 1855; 7. The public response; 8. Whitman and the reader, 1856; 9. 'Publish yourself of your own personality'; 10. 1860: 'year of meteors'; 11. Whitman and his readers through the century; Notes; Index.

Summary

In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture - a culture redefining its democratic identity.

Product details

• Authors: Ezra Greenspan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780521384698
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38469-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies