"The disenthralled hosts of freedom" : party prophecy in the antebellum editions of Leaves of grass /

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"Whitman wrote three distinct editions of Leaves of Grass before the civil war. During those years he was passionately committed to party anti-slavery, and his unpublished tract The Eighteenth Presidency shows that he was fully attuned to the kind of rhetoric coming out of the new Republican pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grant, David, 1959 December 6- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2021]
Series:Iowa Whitman series.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Political and social views.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892. > Leaves of grass.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism, Textual.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > In literature.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt)
1800-1899
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Political parties in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Politique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Antislavery movements in literature
Literature
Literature and society
Political and social views
Political parties in literature
Politics and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • How the national bard could be a partisan hack : the party anti-partyism of The eighteenth presidency
  • The sovereignty of labor in party discourse and Leaves of grass
  • The revolution, party anti-slavery typology, and the 1856 Leaves of grass
  • "Poem of the road" and the party trope of thronging
  • "Calamus" as an answer to the Union-savers.

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