Whitman and the Irish / / Joann P. Krieg

• Autore: Krieg Joann P
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.3; 811/.3
• Soggetto topico: Poets, American - 19th century; Irish Americans
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland Biography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-265) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction; 1 Historical Background; 2 Timeline; 3 New York City; 4 Boston, 1860; 5 Washington, D.C.; 6 Boston, 1881; 7 Camden & Eminent Visitors; 8 Dublin; 9 Coda; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise. In 1855, when the first edition of Leaves of Grass was published, the Irish made up one of the largest immigrant populations in New York City and, as such, maintained a cultural identity of their own. All of this ""Irishnesso swirled about Whitman as he trod the streets of his Mannahatta, ultimately becoming part of him and his poetry. As members of the working class, famous au
• Altri titoli varianti: Whitman & the Irish
• Titolo autorizzato: Whitman and the Irish
• ISBN: 1-58729-341-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821126603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iowa Whitman Series