Kenneth M Price

Whitman in Washington

Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City

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Produktbeschreibung

Whitman in Washington analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to reevaluate the writer and the nation's capital in a time of transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 142mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780198889526
• ISBN-10: 0198889526
• Artikelnr.: 67564186

Autorenporträt

Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Whitman, Washington, and the Convulsiveness of Civil War
2: Whitman as a Paradoxical "Missionary to the Wounded"
3: Strayed Cattle: Anti-Pastoralism in Whitman's War Writings
4: Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, and Office Decorum: How Leaves of Grass Grew Pensive
5: Multi-racial Democracy and Black Democratic Vistas