LEADER 03484nam 22006375 450 001 9910502653603321 005 20230810173157.0 010 $a3-030-77665-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000012024302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6721305 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6721305 035 $a(OCoLC)1287138552 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-77665-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012024302 100 $a20210906d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWalt Whitman $eA Literary Life /$fby Linda Wagner-Martin 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 225 1 $aLiterary Lives 311 $a3-030-77664-6 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter One: The Pride of Family -- Chapter Two: Whitman?s Romance with Work -- Chapter Three: To Travel -- Chapter Four: Leaves of Grass, 1855 -- Chapter Five: Whitman?s Life as ?Poet? -- Chapter Six: Family and The Civil War -- Chapter Seven: The Horrors of American War -- Chapter Eight: Still More War -- Chapter Nine: Whitman and Lincoln -- Chapter Ten: The Wages of Class -- Chapter Eleven: Afterwar -- Chapter Twelve: Reconstruction -- Chapter Thirteen: Suggestions of Success -- Chapter Fourteen: The Hardiness of Fame -- Chapter Fifteen: To Travel, II -- Chapter Sixteen: The Last Years. . 330 $aWalt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman?s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman?s poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps) and those poems written during the last twenty years of his life. Wagner-Martin?s study also emphasizes the near-poverty that Whitman experienced. Starting with his early career as a printer and journalist, the book moves to the publication of Leaves of Grass, and his cultivation of the persona of the ?working-class? writer. In addition to establishing Whitman?s attention to the Civil War through journalism and memoirs, the book takes the approach of following Whitman?s life through his poems. Utilizing contemporary perspectives on class, Wagner-Martin provides a new reading of Whitman?s economic situation. This is an accessibly written synthesis of Whitman?s publication history bringing attention to under-studied aspects of his writing. 410 0$aLiterary Lives 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aPoetry 606 $aUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 606 $aUS History 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aUnited States$xHistory. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aUS History. 676 $a809.93358729403 676 $a811.3 700 $aWagner-Martin$b Linda$0457260 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910502653603321 996 $aWalt Whitman$92557137 997 $aUNINA