LEADER 04265nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910822351503321 005 20240516113202.0 010 $a1-60938-070-3 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046549 035 $a(EBL)843355 035 $a(OCoLC)772499841 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000580834 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11965958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000580834 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10607465 035 $a(PQKB)10727937 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843355 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16003 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843355 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10522183 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046549 100 $a20110422d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalt Whitman's Reconstruction$b[electronic resource] $epoetry and publishing between memory and history /$fMartin T. Buinicki 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity Of Iowa Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 225 1 $aThe Iowa Whitman series,$x1556-5610 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-069-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Walt Whitman's Reconstruction; 2. Periodicals, Politics, and the New Paper World; 3. Whitman and the Elusive Site of Memory; 4. "By the Roadside" and Whitman's Narrative of Poetic (Re)Awakening; 5. Whitman's General; 6. Reconstructing His Story; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"For Walt Whitman, living and working in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War, Reconstruction meant not only navigating these tumultuous years alongside his fellow citizens but also coming to terms with his own memories of the war. Just as the work of national reconstruction would continue long past its official end in 1877, Whitman's own reconstruction would continue throughout the remainder of his life as he worked to revise his poetic project--and his public image--to incorporate the disasters that had befallen the Union. In this innovative and insightful analysis of the considerable poetic and personal reimagining that is the hallmark of these postwar years, Martin Buinicki reveals the ways that Whitman reconstructed and read the war. The Reconstruction years would see Whitman transformed from newspaper editor and staff journalist to celebrity contributor and nationally recognized public lecturer, a transformation driven as much by material developments in the nation as by his own professional and poetic ambitions while he expanded and cemented his place in the American literary landscape. Buinicki places Whitman's postwar periodical publications and business interests in context, closely examining his "By the Roadside" cluster as well as Memoranda During the War and Specimen Days as part of his larger project of personal and artistic reintegration. He traces Whitman's shifting views of Ulysses S. Grant as yet another way to understand the poet's postwar life and profession and reveals the emergence of Whitman the public historian at the end of Reconstruction. Whitman's personal reconstruction was political, poetic, and public, and his prose writings, like his poetry, formed a major part of the postwar figure that he presented to the nation. Looking at the poet's efforts to absorb the war into his own reconstruction narrative, Martin Buinicki provides striking new insights into the evolution of Whitman's views and writings"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aIowa Whitman series. 606 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature 606 $aAuthors and publishers$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xLiterature and the war 615 0$aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature. 615 0$aAuthors and publishers$xHistory 676 $a811/.3 686 $aLIT004020$2bisacsh 700 $aBuinicki$b Martin T.$f1972-$01691722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822351503321 996 $aWalt Whitman's Reconstruction$94068301 997 $aUNINA