Whitman the Political Poet

Name: Whitman the Political Poet
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ISBN: 9780195113808

ISBN-10: 0195113802

ISBN-13: 9780195113808

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: Betsy Erkkila

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Recent critical studies have emphasized the formal, mystical, and psychological dimensions of Walt Whitman's art, dwelling mainly upon his Emersonian and Transcendental sources. This study is the first book to undertake a detailed analysis of Whitman's entire work in relation to the political struggles of the 19th century. Erkkila repairs the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political, the poet and history, that has in the past defined the analysis and evaluation of Whitman's work. Her approach combines close reading and historicist analysis, examining his poems as both products and agents of the political culture of his time. Among the topics explored are the…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/21/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




A Revolutionary Formation



The Paradox of the American Republic



The Poet of Slaves and the Masters of Slaves



Aesthetics and Politics



Leaves of Grass and the Body Politic



The Fractured State



Democracy and (Homo)Sexual Desire



The Union War



Burying President Lincoln



"Who Bridle Leviathan?"



The Poetics of Reconstruction



Representing America



"How Dangerous, How Alive"


Notes


Index