The Poetry of Walt Whitman: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

Selby, Nick

ISBN 10: 184046240X / ISBN 13: 9781840462401

Published by Palgrave, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poetry of Walt Whitman: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184046240X
• ISBN 13: 9781840462401
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 250 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Nick Selby assembles some of the most important critical writings about Walt Whitman in order to demonstrate how critical debate about him has reflected changing perceptions of America itself. Beginning with essays by Emerson and Whitman, and reviews of the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855), this Readers' Guide discusses the literary expectations that Whitman transgressed, and continues by examining his gradual critical elevation into America's spokesman, its 'good gray poet', and his place in the growth of 'American Studies' in the 1940s and 1950s. In its final chapters the Guide explores postmodern, cultural materialist, and 'queer' readings of Whitman's poetry.

About the Author

NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature, and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow.