03354nam 2200565Ia 450 991045831800332120200520144314.01-4384-3012-41-4416-4868-2(CKB)2560000000013038(OCoLC)615600398(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574061(SSID)ssj0000430786(PQKBManifestationID)11303117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430786(PQKBWorkID)10456683(PQKB)10339065(MiAaPQ)EBC3407200(MdBmJHUP)muse1662(Au-PeEL)EBL3407200(CaPaEBR)ebr10574061(EXLCZ)99256000000001303820090526d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWalt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship[electronic resource] homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity /Juan A. Herrero BrasasAlbany State University of New York Pressc20101 online resource (219 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4384-3011-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise -- The building of a reputation -- Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions -- The character of Whitman's religion -- The creed -- The mystic hypothesis -- The strong hypothesis -- The weak hypothesis -- The denial of the hypothesis -- A gospel of beauty -- The classical roots of aestheticism -- Whitman and the platonic tradition -- From phrenology to aesthetic morality -- Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision -- Whitman and Nietzsche -- Whitman and Oscar Wilde -- The love of comrades -- A messianic mission -- The nature of comradeship -- Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality -- Mystical interpretations of comradeship -- Ethical aspects of comradeship -- Religious aspects of comradeship -- Social and political aspects of comradeship -- Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love -- Whitman, the moral reformer -- Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern -- The character of Whitman's new morality -- An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory -- Whitman's attitude to war -- Robert K. Martin's theory : "fucked by the earth" -- David Keubrich's theory : post-Christian millennialism -- Reynolds's theory : "immoral didacticism" -- A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory -- An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth -- A queer (theory) postscript -- A queer (theory) twist : no new species -- Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy -- Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.Poets, American19th centuryBiographyGay menUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Poets, AmericanGay men811/.3BHerrero-Brasas Juan A1034513MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458318003321Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship2453695UNINA