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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145268503321

Autore

Folsom Ed <1947->

Titolo

Re-scripting Walt Whitman [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to his life and work / / Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2005

ISBN

1-280-19839-7

9786610198399

0-470-77493-2

1-4051-4468-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xv, 156 p. : ill

Collana

Blackwell introductions to literature

Altri autori (Persone)

PriceKenneth M

Disciplina

811/.3

Soggetti

Poets, American - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Growing up in the age of accelerating print : Whitman as printer, journalist, teacher, and fiction writer -- "Many manuscript doings and undoings" : the road toward Leaves of grass -- "I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us" : the first and second editions of Leaves of grass -- Intimate script and the New American Bible : "Calamus" and the making of the 1860 Leaves of grass -- Blood-stained memoranda -- Reconstructing Leaves of grass, restructuring a life -- Dying into leaves -- What Whitman left us.

Sommario/riassunto

This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works.  · An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. · Weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works. · Focuses especially on Whitman's evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass. · Examines the material conditions and products of Whitman's "scripted life", including his original manuscripts. · Investigates Whitman's "life in print" - his belief that he could literally embody himself in his books. · Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman's work at www.whitmanarchive.org.