Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work - Softcover

Folsom, Ed; Price, Kenneth M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405118180 ISBN 13: 9781405118187

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works.

· An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman.

· Weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works.

· Focuses especially on Whitman’s evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass.

· Examines the material conditions and products of Whitman’s “scripted life”, including his original manuscripts.

· Investigates Whitman’s “life in print” – his belief that he could literally embody himself in his books.

· Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman’s work at www.whitmanarchive.org

About this title

About the Author

Ed Folsom is Carver Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive and the author or editor of five books on Whitman, including Walt Whitman’s Native Representations (1994) and Whitman East and West (1992).

Kenneth M. Price is the Hillegass Professor of American Literature at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the co-director of the Walt Whitman archive, editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews, and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in his Century (1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (2004).

From the Back Cover

“This is no book, / Who touches this touches a man,” Walt Whitman famously said. Taking account of Whitman’s identification of himself with his books, this introductory guide weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works, especially his evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass.

Authors Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price examine the material conditions and products of Whitman’s “scripted life,” including the long-overlooked original manuscripts that illuminate his motives, ideas, and writing processes. They also investigate Whitman’s “life in print,” the ways that his training and experience as a printer and typesetter led him to believe that he could literally transfer his identity to the printed page and embody himself in his books. The result is an innovative introduction to Walt Whitman that focuses on those places where the writer’s life and work most thoroughly meld.

Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price are co-directors of the Walt Whitman Archive, and the electronic edition at www.whitmanarchive.org offers readers further opportunities for study.

Authors Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price examine the material conditions and products of Whitman’s “scripted life,” including the long-overlooked original manuscripts that illuminate his motives, ideas, and writing processes. They also investigate Whitman’s “life in print,” the ways that his training and experience as a printer and typesetter led him to believe that he could literally transfer his identity to the printed page and embody himself in his books. The result is an innovative introduction to Walt Whitman that focuses on those places where the writer’s life and work most thoroughly meld.

Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price are co-directors of the Walt Whitman Archive, and the electronic edition at www.whitmanarchive.org offers readers further opportunities for study.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405118180
• ISBN 13: 9781405118187
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174