| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 373 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Political companions to great American authors |
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Political companions to great American authors.
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| Contents |
Democratic vistas today / John E. Seery -- Individuality and connectedness -- Walt Whitman and the culture of democracy / George Kateb -- Strange attractors: how individualists connect to form democratic unity / Nancy L. Rosenblum -- Mestiza poetics: Walt Whitman, Barack Obama, and the question of union / Cristina Beltrán -- Democratic desire: Walt Whitman / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The solar judgment of Walt Whitman / Jane Bennett -- City life and bodily place -- "Mass merger": Whitman and Baudelaire, the modern street, and democratic culture / Marshall Berman -- Promiscuous citizenship / Jason Frank -- Walt Whitman and the ethnopoetics of New York / Michael J. Shapiro -- Democratic manliness / Terrell Carver -- Death and citizenship -- Whitman as a political thinker / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Whitman, death, and democracy / Jack Turner -- Morbid democracies: the bodies politic of Walt Whitman and Richard Rorty / Kennan Ferguson -- Democratic enlightenment: Whitman and aesthetic education / Morton Schoolman |
| Summary |
The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted. Some scholars disregard Whitman's understanding of democracy, insisting on separating his personal works from his political works. A Political Companion to Walt Whitman is the first full-length exploration of Whitman's works through the lens of political theory. Editor John E. Seery and a collection of prominent theorists and philosop |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast |
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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 gnd |
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Democracy in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Democracy in literature
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Political and social views
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Politisches Denken
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seery, John Evan, editor.
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| LC no. |
2010030300 |
| ISBN |
9780813126555 |
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081312655X |
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9780813139838 |
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081313983X |
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1283017806 |
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9781283017800 |
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