02769nam 2200649 a 450 991097264040332120200520144314.097815872967031587296705(CKB)1000000000483593(EBL)843189(OCoLC)216935098(SSID)ssj0000268815(PQKBManifestationID)11219174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268815(PQKBWorkID)10237494(PQKB)10355338(MiAaPQ)EBC843189(MdBmJHUP)muse9228(Au-PeEL)EBL843189(CaPaEBR)ebr10354430(Perlego)2937397(EXLCZ)99100000000048359320050808d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWalt Whitman & the class struggle /Andrew Lawson1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (187 p.)The Iowa Whitman seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9780877459736 0877459738 Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-142) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Whitman Myth; 1 Sex, Class, and Commerce; 2 The American 1848; 3 The Class Struggle in Language; Postscript: Material Resistance; Notes; Bibliography; IndexBy reconsidering Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American diversity but as a historically specific poet with roots in the antebellum lower middle class, Andrew Lawson in Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle defines the tensions and ambiguities about culture, class, and politics that underlie his poetry. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources from across the range of antebellum print culture, Lawson uses close readings of Leaves of Grass to reveal Whitman as an artisan and an autodidact ambivalently balanced between his sense of the injustice of class privilege and his desire for distincIowa Whitman series.Walt Whtiman and the class struggleLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centurySocial classes in literatureSocial conflict in literatureLiterature and societyHistorySocial classes in literature.Social conflict in literature.811.3Lawson Andrew1959 July 4-1803634MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972640403321Walt Whitman & the class struggle4351269UNINA