Ezra Greenspan

Walt Whitman and the American Reader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780521109970
• ISBN-10: 0521109973
• Artikelnr.: 26055703

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Whitman and the Conditions for Authorship in Nineteenth-century America: 1. Homage to the tenth muse
2. The evolution of American literary culture, 1820-50
3. Going forth into literary America
4. 'I am a writer, for the press and otherwise'
Part II. Whitman, Leaves of Grass and the Reader: 5. Intentions and ambitions
6. Whitman and the reader, 1855
7. The public response
8. Whitman and the reader, 1856
9. 'Publish yourself of your own personality'
10. 1860: 'year of meteors'
11. Whitman and his readers through the century
Notes
Index.