1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000031046

Autore

Abrams, Meyer Howard

Titolo

Wordsworth : a collection of critical essays / edited by M. H. Abrams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Englewood Cliffs (N. J.) : Prentice-Hall, 1972

ISBN

0-13-965061-X

Descrizione fisica

X, 214 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Twentieth century views

A spectrum book ; 102

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451660003321

Autore

Blake David Haven

Titolo

Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity [[electronic resource] /] / David Haven Blake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-281-73491-8

9786611734916

0-300-13481-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 251 p.) ) : ill

Disciplina

811/.3

B

Soggetti

Poets, American - 19th century

Publicity

Fame - Economic aspects

Popular culture - United States - History - 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 (p. [217]-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontispiece -- Celebrity -- Personality -- Publicity -- Intimacies -- Campaigns.

Sommario/riassunto

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity proposes a fundamentally new way of thinking about a seminal American poet and a major national icon.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458701503321

Autore

Morrison Jeffry H. <1961->

Titolo

John Witherspoon and the founding of the American republic [[electronic resource] /] / Jeffry H. Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2005

ISBN

0-268-08722-9

0-268-08677-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

973.3/092

B

Soggetti

Statesmen - United States

Presbyterian Church - United States - Clergy

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1775-1783

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Forgotten founder -- "The public interest of religion" : virtue, religion, and the republic -- "Plain common sense" : educating patriots at Princeton -- "An animated Son of Liberty" : revolution -- "An equal republican constitution" : confederation, union, and nationhood -- John Witherspoon and early American political thought -- Appendix A. Witherspoon and the debate in Congress on independence, July 1776 -- Appendix B. Dating the "Sermon delivered at a public thanksgiving after peace," 1782.