A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman Paperback / softback
Edited by David S. (Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Distinguished Professor of Ameri Reynolds
Part of the Historical Guides to American Authors series
Paperback / softback
Description
Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet.
This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts.
The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts, and the idea of democracy.
The poet who emerges from this volume is no "solitary singer," distanced from his culture, but what he himself called "the age transfigured," fully enmeshed in his times and addressing issues that are still vital today.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 26 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:18/05/2000
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- ISBN:9780195120820
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 26 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:18/05/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195120820