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Walt Whitman s America
Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 1996-03-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780679767091 |
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.
Walt Whitman s America
Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2011-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307761927 |
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.
Walt Whitman s America
Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2011-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307761927 |
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.
To Walt Whitman America
Author | : Kenneth M. Price |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2005-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807876114 |
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Walt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls. In an analysis of Whitman as a quintessential American icon, Kenneth Price shows how his ubiquity and his extraordinarily malleable identity have contributed to the ongoing process of shaping the character of the United States. Price examines Whitman's own writings as well as those of writers who were influenced by him, paying particular attention to Whitman's legacies for an ethnically and sexually diverse America. He focuses on fictional works by Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Naylor, among others. In Price's study, Leaves of Grass emerges as a living document accruing meanings that evolve with time and with new readers, with Whitman and his words regularly pulled into debates over immigration, politics, sexuality, and national identity. As Price demonstrates, Whitman is a recurring starting point, a provocation, and an irresistible, rewritable text for those who reinvent the icon in their efforts to remake America itself.
Leaves of Grass
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : MINN:31951002415170D |
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Walt Whitman
Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195170092 |
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Portrays Walt Whitman in the social, political, and cultural context of his day.
A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman
Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195120813 |
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This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore Whitman's relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores and the idea of democracy.
Poems by Walt Whitman
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781473362222 |
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Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry. Here are collected his finest poems, a perfect companion for any fan of Whitman's work.