LEADER 03354nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910458318003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4384-3012-4 010 $a1-4416-4868-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000013038 035 $a(OCoLC)615600398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574061 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000430786 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11303117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430786 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10456683 035 $a(PQKB)10339065 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407200 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1662 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407200 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574061 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000013038 100 $a20090526d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship$b[electronic resource] $ehomosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity /$fJuan A. Herrero Brasas 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4384-3011-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 606 $aPoets, American$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aGay men$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoets, American 615 0$aGay men 676 $a811/.3 676 $aB 700 $aHerrero-Brasas$b Juan A$01034513 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458318003321 996 $aWalt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship$92453695 997 $aUNINA