LEADER 03583nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910819509803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-424-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447515 035 $a(EBL)837092 035 $a(OCoLC)56109580 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000226145 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234621 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000226145 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10234380 035 $a(PQKB)10796957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837092 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354479 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447515 100 $a20020319d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe pragmatic Whitman $ereimagining American democracy /$fStephen John Mack 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (207 p.) 225 1 $aThe Iowa Whitman series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-822-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision; Part I: The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856; Chapter 1 "My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach": Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology; Chapter 2 "What Is Less or More Than a Touch?": Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self; Chapter 3 "The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme": Whitman's Democratic Cosmos; Chapter 4 "Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan": Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency 327 $aPart II: Crises and ReVisions: "Sea-Drift," "Calamus," Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867Chapter 5 "The Most Perfect Pilot": The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency; Chapter 6 "To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning; Part III: Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871; Chapter 7 "The Divine Literatus Comes": Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood; Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a In this surprisingly timely book, Stephen Mack examines Whitman's particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultural process as well is associated with American pragmatism, Mack relies on the pragmatic tradition of Emerson, James, Dewey, Mead, and Rorty to demonstrate the ways in which Whitman resides in this tradition.Mack analyzes Whitman's democratic vision both in its parts and as a whole; he 410 0$aIowa Whitman series. 606 $aDemocracy in literature 606 $aPatriotic poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitical poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xIn literature 615 0$aDemocracy in literature. 615 0$aPatriotic poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitical poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a811/.3 700 $aMack$b Stephen John$f1952-$01698619 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819509803321 996 $aThe pragmatic Whitman$94080240 997 $aUNINA