LEADER 02769nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910972640403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781587296703 010 $a1587296705 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483593 035 $a(EBL)843189 035 $a(OCoLC)216935098 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268815 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219174 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268815 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237494 035 $a(PQKB)10355338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843189 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9228 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843189 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354430 035 $a(Perlego)2937397 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483593 100 $a20050808d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalt Whitman & the class struggle /$fAndrew Lawson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (187 p.) 225 1 $aThe Iowa Whitman series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780877459736 311 08$a0877459738 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [137]-142) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Whitman Myth; 1 Sex, Class, and Commerce; 2 The American 1848; 3 The Class Struggle in Language; Postscript: Material Resistance; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aBy reconsidering Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American diversity but as a historically specific poet with roots in the antebellum lower middle class, Andrew Lawson in Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle defines the tensions and ambiguities about culture, class, and politics that underlie his poetry. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources from across the range of antebellum print culture, Lawson uses close readings of Leaves of Grass to reveal Whitman as an artisan and an autodidact ambivalently balanced between his sense of the injustice of class privilege and his desire for distinc 410 0$aIowa Whitman series. 517 0 $aWalt Whtiman and the class struggle 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aSocial conflict in literature 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aSocial conflict in literature. 676 $a811.3 700 $aLawson$b Andrew$f1959 July 4-$01803634 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972640403321 996 $aWalt Whitman & the class struggle$94351269 997 $aUNINA