Research Catalog

Title

Walt Whitman's America : a cultural biography / David S. Reynolds.

Author

Reynolds, David S., 1948-

Publication

New York : Knopf, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Olsson, Robert C.
• Ferguson, Archie.
• Emerson, Jason.
• Graphic Composition. cmt
• R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. prt
• R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. bnd

Description

xii, 671 p. [16] p. of plates; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Poets, American > 19th century > Biography
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• United States > Civilization > 19th century
• Reynolds, David S., 1948- > Portraits
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Walbaum
• Dust jackets (Binding)
• United States > Civilización > Siglo XIX
• Poetas americanos > Siglo XIX > Biografía

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Walbaum.
• Dust jackets (Binding)

Note

• Set in Walbaum by Graphic Composition Inc., Athens, Ga.
• Printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Harrisonburg, Va.
• Book designed by Robert C. Olsson; jacket designed by Archie Ferguson.
• Photograph of the author on rear flap of jacket by Jason Emerson.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 591-638) and index.

Binding (note)

• Bound in black quarter paper over boards with gold paper covers, titling on spine; printed dust jacket.

Contents

• "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.

Call Number

Berg Coll Whitman ZB4 R49 1996

ISBN

• 0394580230
• 9780394580234

LCCN

94012841

OCLC

36854366

Author

Reynolds, David S., 1948-

Title

Walt Whitman's America : a cultural biography / David S. Reynolds.

Imprint

New York : Knopf, 1996.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 591-638) and index.

Binding

Bound in black quarter paper over boards with gold paper covers, titling on spine; printed dust jacket.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy: Gift of Stephen Crook, May 2007.

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Added Author

Olsson, Robert C. Book designer

Ferguson, Archie. Bookjacket designer

Emerson, Jason. Photographer

Crook, Stephen G., 1950- Donor NN-BGC

Graphic Composition. Compositor

R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. Printer

R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. Binder

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Whitman ZB4 R49 1996