Walt Whitman : A literary life 1st ed.
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- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9783030776657
- Series
- Literary lives
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- Abstract
- Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman’s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman’s poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps) and those poems written during the last twenty years of his life. Wagner-Martin’s study also emphasizes the near-poverty that Whitman experienced. Starting with his early career as a printer and journalist, the book moves to the publication of Leaves of Grass, and his cultivation of the persona of the “working-class” writer. In addition to establishing Whitman’s attention to the Civil War through journalism and memoirs, the book takes the approach of following Whitman’s life through his poems. Utilizing contemporary perspectives on class, Wagner-Martin provides a new reading of Whitman’s economic situation. This is an accessibly written synthesis of Whitman’s publication history bringing attention to under-studied aspects of his writing.
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 218 p.)
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Summary / Review / Table of Content
Introduction
Chapter One: The Pride of Family
Chapter Two: Whitmans Romance with Work
Chapter Three: To Travel
Chapter Four: Leaves of Grass, 1855
Chapter Five: Whitmans Life as Poet
Chapter Six: Family and The Civil War
Chapter Seven: The Horrors of American War
Chapter Eight: Still More War
Chapter Nine: Whitman and Lincoln
Chapter Ten: The Wages of Class
Chapter Eleven: Afterwar
Chapter Twelve: Reconstruction
Chapter Thirteen: Suggestions of Success
Chapter Fourteen: The Hardiness of Fame
Chapter Fifteen: To Travel, II
Chapter Sixteen: The Last Years
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| 1. | 00605/22 | 811.3 Wag W | Online ! | Available |
