A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (Historical Guides to American Authors)

. Ed(s): Reynolds, David S.

ISBN 10: 0195120817 / ISBN 13: 9780195120813

Published by OUP USA, 2000

About this Item

This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman's diverse contexts. Editor(s): Reynolds, David S. Series: Historical Guides to American Authors. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 449. . 2000. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (Historical Guides to American Authors)
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195120817
• ISBN 13: 9780195120813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts, and the idea of democracy. The poet who emerges from this volume is no "solitary singer," distanced from his culture, but what he himself called "the age transfigured," fully enmeshed in his times and addressing issues that are still vital today.

About the Author

David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  His other books include "Walt Whitman's America," "John Brown, Abolitionist," Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson," "Beneath the American Renaissance," and "Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America."  He is the winner of many prizes, including the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.