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Contains seventeen essays by pre-eminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus on Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". This book features contributors who treat Whitman's poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Belasco, Susan, 1950-, Folsom, Ed, 1947-, Price, Kenneth M.
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892. > Leaves of grass.
Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What we're still learning about the 1855 Leaves of grass 150 years later / Ed Folsom Foregrounding the first edition
  • Whitman, Marx, and the American 1848 / Betsy Erkkila
  • United States and States united: Whitman's national vision in 1855 / M. Wynn Thomas
  • Reading the first edition
  • "One goodshaped and wellhung man": accentuated sexuality and the uncertain authorship of the frontispiece to the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass / Ted Genoways
  • Whitman at night: "The sleepers" in 1855 / Alan Trachtenberg
  • Complaints from the spotted hawk: flights and feathers in Whitman's 1855 Leaves of grass / Thomas C. Gannon
  • Contextualizing the first edition
  • Leaves of grass and the poetry marketplace of antebellum America / Susan Belasco
  • Leaves of grass (1855) and the cities of Whitman's memory / William Pannapacker
  • The lost Negress of "Song of Myself" and the jolly young wenches of Civil War Washington / Kenneth M. Price
  • "Bringing help for the sick": Whitman and prophetic biography / Vivian R. Pollak
  • Aftereffects
  • The visionary and the visual in Whitman's poetics / M. Jimmie Killingsworth
  • Walt Whitman as an eminent Victorian / Lawrence Buell
  • "To reach the workmen direct": Horace Traubel and the work of the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass / Matt Cohen
  • "Profession of the calamus": Whitman, Eliot, Matthiessen / Jay Grossman
  • Whitman and the Cold War: the centenary celebration of Leaves of grass in Eastern Europe / Walter Grunzweig
  • The Life behind the book
  • "A Southerner as soon as a Northerner": writing Walt Whitman's biography / Jerome Loving
  • Why I write cultural biography: the backgrounds of Walt Whitman's America / David S. Reynolds
  • A poet responds
  • "Strong is your hold": my encounters with Whitman / Galway Kinnell
  • The critical response
  • The first Leaves of grass: a bibliography / Donald D. Kummings.

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