
Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Abbreviations Of Whitman's Works -- 1. Whitman, Washington, And The Convulsiveness Of Civil War -- 2. Whitman As A Paradoxical Missionary To The Wounded -- The Missionary And Transmission: Scribal Writing And Fluid Identity -- Sacred Bereavement And The Complexities Of Remembering And Forgetting -- 3. Strayed Cattle: Anti-pastoralism In Whitman's War Writings -- American Pastoralism -- Cattle, Chattel, And The Anti-pastoral The Pastoral Hut, The Urban Shanty, And The Grand Mausoleum -- 4. Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, And Office Decorum: How Leaves Of Grass Grew Pensive -- 5. Multi-racial Democracy And Black Democratic Vistas -- Whitman's Silences -- From Blue Ontario's Shore To Democratic Vistas -- Andrew Johnson, The Klan, And Whitman's Postwar Vistas -- Why Did He Ossify And Can We Learn From The Late Whitman? -- The Paradoxes Of A National Poet -- Works Cited -- Index Kenneth M. Price. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
How did Walt Whitman’s residence in Washington, D.C., during and after the Civil War fundamentally reshape his identity as a national poet? Kenneth M. Price, a scholar of American literature, examines the intersection of Whitman’s personal experiences in the federal city with the political and social upheavals of the era. By analyzing Whitman’s war writings, correspondence, and evolving poetry, Price argues that the poet’s time in Washington served as a crucible for his democratic vision and his eventual ideological shifts.
What You Will Find
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Scholars recognize this work as a significant contribution to the study of Whitman’s later career and the political context of his writing. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is well-suited for researchers and students of 19th-century American literature.
Page Count:
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Publication Date:
1900-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0191876542
ISBN-13:
9780191876547
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