Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers

• Autore: Ceniza Sherry
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.3; 811/.3
• Soggetto topico: Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Friends and associates; Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Political and social views; Women's rights in literature; Women and literature - History - 19th century - United States; Feminism - History - 19th century - United States; Women social reformers - United States; Social change in literature; Radicalism in literature; Women in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Louisa Van Velsor Whitman; 2. Abby Hills Price; 3. Paulina Wright Davis; 4. Ernestine L. Rose; 5. Responses of Some 19th-Century Women to the 1860 Leaves of Grass; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture. Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850's, the decade of Whitman's most creative period. The book reveals startling connections between the first three editions of Leaves of Grass and the texts generated by the women he knew during this period, many of whom were radical activists in the women's rights movement.Sherry Ceniza argues that Whitman's editions of Leaves became progre
• Titolo autorizzato: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers
• ISBN: 0-8173-8726-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814692303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II