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Rebel souls : Walt Whitman and America's first bohemians
- Title
- Rebel souls : Walt Whitman and America's first bohemians / Justin Martin.
- Author
- Martin, Justin.
- Publication
- Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | JFE 14-6899 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists-- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan--rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln. This vibrant tale, packed with original research, offers the pleasures of a great group biography like The Banquet Years or The Metaphysical Club. Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture--imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon--seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day. "--
- Series Statement
- A Merloyd Lawrence book
- Subjects
- New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 19th century
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- POETRY / American / General
- Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 1836-1870
- Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867
- Bohemianism > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century
- Menken, Adah Isaacs, 1835-1868
- Bars (Drinking establishments) > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Friends and associates
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-6899
- ISBN
- 9780306822261
- 0306822261
- LCCN
- 2014008822
- OCLC
- 2014008822
- Author
- Martin, Justin.
- Title
- Rebel souls : Walt Whitman and America's first bohemians / Justin Martin.
- Publisher
- Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Merloyd Lawrence book
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-6899