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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edmundson, Mark, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Citations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Song of Ourselves
  • I Celebrate Myself
  • Undisguised and Naked
  • The Marriage of Self and Soul
  • The Grass
  • All In
  • A Vision of Democracy
  • These States
  • Songs of Triumph
  • Poet of the Body
  • The Sun
  • The Generative God
  • The Animals
  • Walt Becomes Other
  • A Massacre
  • A Sea Fight
  • American Jesus
  • Democratic Götterdämmerung
  • Walt and the Priests
  • Walt's God
  • Walt and the Reader
  • Death and Democracy
  • Part II: In the Hospitals
  • Publication
  • In Washington
  • Letters Home
  • Tom Sawyer
  • The Vision Completed
  • Part III: Song of Myself (1855)
  • Song of Myself
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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