Walt Whitman's America : a cultural biography /
Reynolds, David S., 1948-
Walt Whitman's America : a cultural biography / David S. Reynolds. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 1995. - xii, 671 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 594-638) and index.
"Underneath all, nativity": literary genealogy, literary geography --
A Brooklyn boyhood: sights, surroundings, influences --
Dark passages: teaching and early authorship --
Mannahatta: the literary marketplace and urban reality --
"The United States need poets": the political and social crisis --
American performances: theater, oratory, music --
"Sex is the root of it all": eroticism and gender --
Earth, body, soul: science and religion --
Toward a popular aesthetic: the visual arts --
"I contain multitudes": the first edition of Leaves of Grass. "The murderous delays": in search of an audience --
Brotherly love, national war: into the 1860s --
"My book and the war are one": the Washington years --
Reconstructing a nation, reconstructing a poet: postbellum institutions --
The burden of atlas: the new America --
The pope of Mickle Street: the final years.
Exploring the full range of writings by and about Whitman - not just his most famous work but also his earliest poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks - Reynolds gives us a full, rounded picture of the man, of his creative blending of disparate ideas and images, and his contradictory stances on race, class, and gender. Whitman's uniqueness is shown to spring
0394580230 9780394580234
94012841
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Knowledge--America.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
Poetas estadounidenses --Siglo XIX --Biografías
United States--Civilization--19th century.
B PS 3231 / W615R 1995
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Walt Whitman's America : a cultural biography / David S. Reynolds. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 1995. - xii, 671 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 594-638) and index.
"Underneath all, nativity": literary genealogy, literary geography --
A Brooklyn boyhood: sights, surroundings, influences --
Dark passages: teaching and early authorship --
Mannahatta: the literary marketplace and urban reality --
"The United States need poets": the political and social crisis --
American performances: theater, oratory, music --
"Sex is the root of it all": eroticism and gender --
Earth, body, soul: science and religion --
Toward a popular aesthetic: the visual arts --
"I contain multitudes": the first edition of Leaves of Grass. "The murderous delays": in search of an audience --
Brotherly love, national war: into the 1860s --
"My book and the war are one": the Washington years --
Reconstructing a nation, reconstructing a poet: postbellum institutions --
The burden of atlas: the new America --
The pope of Mickle Street: the final years.
Exploring the full range of writings by and about Whitman - not just his most famous work but also his earliest poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks - Reynolds gives us a full, rounded picture of the man, of his creative blending of disparate ideas and images, and his contradictory stances on race, class, and gender. Whitman's uniqueness is shown to spring
0394580230 9780394580234
94012841
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Knowledge--America.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
Poetas estadounidenses --Siglo XIX --Biografías
United States--Civilization--19th century.
B PS 3231 / W615R 1995
811/.3