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The Poetry of Walt Whitman
Nick Selby
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Hardcover. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; 2ABM; DSBF; DSC; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, Hampshire
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Series
Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Condition
New
Weight
339g
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781403933164
SKU
V9781403933164
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About Nick Selby
NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature, and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow.
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