Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy /

"Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edmundson, Mark, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Temas:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892. > Song of myself.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892
Song of myself (Whitman, Walt)
1861-1865
Democracy in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Democracy in literature
Hospitals
War and literature
War work
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Hospitals.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > War work.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9780674258983
0674258983

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