Research Catalog

Title

Walt Whitman / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Robert C., 1955-

Description

xxxv, 317 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Provides an introduction to Walt Whitman and the critical discussions surrounding his work.
• Walt Whitman is widely considered one of the most innovative and influential of all American poets. In fact, his poetry has also affected many writers and other kinds of artists (such as composers) in various places outside America. Whitman wrote in a loose, free-flowing style that is all his own but that also inspired many later writers, such as Carl Sandburg and Allen Ginsberg (to mention only two of many poets who deliberately took Whitman as a model). But Whitman is notable and influential not only for his way of writing but also for the topics he addressed. These include (among many others) freedom, sexuality, the lives of common people, democratic values and aspirations, and a kind of spirituality not necessarily tethered to conventional religion. This volume provides readers with a better understanding of Whitman the person, the thinker, and the artist.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subjects

• American poetry
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• 1800-1899
• Democracy in literature
• Sex (Psychology) in literature
• American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Description (note)

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Contents

Walt Whitman and me / David S. Reynolds -- Biography of Walt Whitman / Robert C. Evans -- Clerk Trouble: Masculinity, consumerism, and Whitman's print culture / Jason Stacy -- Recent editions of Whitman's poetry: A survey / Robert C. Evans -- "Closer yet I approach you": Acts of crossing in Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Joyce E. Kelley -- Lucifer in Leaves of Grass / Daniel Mackay -- Walt Whitman in his social context / Christopher Baker -- What Walt Whitman means to the Negro / Kelly Miller -- "Whitman: The poet-liberator of woman" / Mabel MacCoy Irwin -- Early responses to Whitman's homoeroticism / W.C. Rivers and anonymous reviewers -- Walt Whitman and the "homophile" movement in the 1950s: Evidence in the archives of the "one institute" / Robert C. Evans -- Rockwell Kent's illustrations for Leaves of Grass / Robert C. Evans -- Singing the body eclectic: The corporeal in Whitman's poetry / Nicolas Tredell -- "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there": Masculinity, suffering and the presence in Whitman / Nicolas Tredell -- Walt Whitman, immigration, and the music of democracy / Brian Yothers -- Reflections on Walt Whitman / Karen Karbiener.

Call Number

JFE 20-2256

ISBN

• 9781642652758
• 164265275X

OCLC

1107429326

Title

Walt Whitman / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2256