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Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy
- Title
- Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy / Mark Edmundson.
- Author
- Edmundson, Mark, 1952-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 217 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War"--
- Subjects
- United States
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 1861-1865
- American Civil War > (United States : > 1861-1865)
- War work
- War and literature
- Hospitals
- Democracy in literature
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > War work
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Hospitals
- Song of myself (Whitman, Walt)
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Song of myself
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Literary criticism.
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Song of ourselves: I celebrate myself -- Undisguised and naked -- The marriage of self and soul -- The grass -- All in -- A vision of democracy -- These states -- Songs of triumph -- Poet of the body -- The sun -- The generative god -- The animals -- Walt becomes other -- A massacre -- A sea fight -- American Jesus -- Democratic GoÌẗterdaÌm̈merung -- Walt and the priests -- Walt's god -- Walt and the reader -- Death and democracy -- Part II. In the hospitals: Publication -- In Washington -- Letters home -- Tom Sawyer -- The vision completed -- Part III. Song of myself (1855).
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1594
- ISBN
- 9780674237162
- 0674237161
- LCCN
- 2020039198
- OCLC
- 1198018656
- Author
- Edmundson, Mark, 1952- author.
- Title
- Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy / Mark Edmundson.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1861-1865
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1594