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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791471403321

Autore

Whitman Walt <1819-1892.>

Titolo

Democratic vistas [[electronic resource] ] : the original edition in facsimile / / by Walt Whitman ; edited by Ed Folsom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2010

ISBN

1-58729-923-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

The Iowa Whitman series, , 1556-5610

Altri autori (Persone)

FolsomEd <1947->

Disciplina

814/.3

Soggetti

Politics, Practical - United States

United States Politics and government 1869-1877

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Textual Note; The Vistas of Democratic Vistas: An Introduction by Ed Folsom; Democratic Vistas; Annotations; Selected Bibliography of Works about Democratic Vistas

Sommario/riassunto

Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Diagnosing democracy's failures as well as laying out its vast possibilities, Whitman offers an unflinching assessment of the ongoing social experiment known as the United States. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts,