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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456135903321

Autore

Krieg Joann P

Titolo

Whitman and the Irish [[electronic resource] /] / Joann P. Krieg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2000

ISBN

1-58729-341-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Iowa Whitman Series

Disciplina

811.3

811/.3

Soggetti

Poets, American - 19th century

Irish Americans

Electronic books.

Ireland Biography

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. [239]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; 1 Historical Background; 2 Timeline; 3 New York City; 4 Boston, 1860; 5 Washington, D.C.; 6 Boston, 1881; 7 Camden & Eminent Visitors; 8 Dublin; 9 Coda; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise. In 1855, when the first edition of Leaves of Grass was published, the Irish made up one of the largest immigrant populations in New York City and, as such, maintained a cultural identity of their own. All of this ""Irishnesso swirled about Whitman as he trod the streets of his Mannahatta, ultimately becoming part of him and his poetry. As members of the working class, famous au