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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797299903321

Autore

Whitman Walt <1819-1892, >

Titolo

Walt Whitman's selected journalism / / Walt Whitman ; edited by Douglas A. Noverr and Jason Stacy ; design by Ashley Muehlbauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60938-316-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Iowa Whitman Series, , 1556-5610

Disciplina

818/.308

Soggetti

Journalism - United States

United States Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Long before he was a celebrated poet, Walt Whitman was a working journalist. By the time he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855, Whitman had edited three newspapers and published thousands of reviews, editorials, and human-interest stories in newspapers in and around New York City. Yet for decades, much of his journalism has been difficult to access or even find. For the first time, Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism thematically and chronologically organizes a compelling selection of Whitman's journalism from the late 1830's to the Civil War. It includes writings from the...