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Whitman among the Bohemians /

For several years just before and just after his 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass appeared, Walt Whitman regularly frequented Pfaff's beer cellar in downtown Manhattan. The basement bar was the very center of mid-nineteenth-century American bohemian activity and was heavily patronized by writers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levin, Joanna (Editor ), Whitley, Edward Keyes (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014.
Colección:Iowa Whitman series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction / Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley
  • Chapter 1. Bridging Brooklyn and Bohemia: How the Brooklyn Daily Times Brought Whitman Closer to Pfaff's / Karen Karbiener
  • Chapter 2. Walt Whitman and the King of Bohemia: The Poet in the Saturday Press / Amanda Gailey
  • Chapter 3. Publishing Pfaff's: Henry Clapp and Poetry in the Saturday Press / Ingrid Satelmajer
  • Chapter 4. On Puffing: The Saturday Press and the Circulation of Symbolic Capital / Leif Eckstrom
  • Chapter 5. "Freedom for Women from Conventional Lies": The "Queen of Bohemia" and the Feminist Feuilleton / Joanna Levin
  • Chapter 6. Whitman, the Antebellum Theater, and the Cultural Authority of the Bohemian Critic / Edward Whitley
  • Chapter 7. "An Unusually Active Market for Calamus": Whitman and Vanity Fair / Robert J. Scholnick
  • Chapter 8. Whitman and the "Picture-Makers" / Ruth L. Bohan
  • Chapter 9. Adorning Myself to Bestow Myself: Reading Leaves of Grass in 1860 / Logan Esdale
  • Chapter 10. "Tell What I Meant by Calamus": Walt Whitman's Vision of Comradeship from Fred Vaughan to the Fred Gray Association / Stephanie M. Blalock
  • Chapter 11. Whitman and Menken, Loosing and Losing Voices / Eliza Richards
  • Chapter 12. Stedman, Whitman, and the Transatlantic Canonization of American Poetry / Mary Loeffelholz
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index.