LEADER 03269nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910451660003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73491-8 010 $a9786611734916 010 $a0-300-13481-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300134810 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473579 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171502 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268817 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219175 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268817 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10236338 035 $a(PQKB)10250428 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165564 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420374 035 $a(DE-B1597)485264 035 $a(OCoLC)1013935631 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300134810 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420374 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210257 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173491 035 $a(OCoLC)923592698 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473579 100 $a20060315d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid Haven Blake 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 251 p.) ) $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11017-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index. 327 $aFrontispiece -- Celebrity -- Personality -- Publicity -- Intimacies -- Campaigns. 330 $aWhat is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity proposes a fundamentally new way of thinking about a seminal American poet and a major national icon. 606 $aPoets, American$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aPublicity 606 $aFame$xEconomic aspects 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoets, American 615 0$aPublicity. 615 0$aFame$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 676 $a811/.3 676 $aB 700 $aBlake$b David Haven$01039151 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451660003321 996 $aWalt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity$92461184 997 $aUNINA