Walt Whitman / David S.Reynolds.
Publication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: x, 159 p. : ill., ports ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780195170092
- 0195170091 :
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge and learning
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Biography
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge and learning
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. -- Knowledge and learning
- Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Civilization -- 19th century
- 811.3
- PS3231 .R475 2005
- Also available online (Table of contents)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 811.3 REY | Available | 062831 |
Bibliography : p. 153-154. - Includes index.
Life -- Popular culture, city life, and politics -- Theater, oratory, and music -- The visual arts -- Science, philosophy, and religion -- Sex, gender, and comradeship -- The Civil War, Lincoln, and Reconstruction.
"In this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Walt Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America." "Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion, and sex. But perhaps nothing influenced Whitman more than the political events of his lifetime, as the struggle over slavery threatened to rip apart the national fabric." "Readers will also discover how from the new medium of photography Whitman learned democratic realism and offered in his poetry "photographs" of common people engaged in everyday activities. Reynolds concludes with an appraisal of Whitman's impact on American letters, an influence that remains strong today."--BOOK JACKET.
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