Whitman among the Bohemians / / edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley ; contributors, Stephanie M. Blalock [and eleven others]
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Whitman among the Bohemians / / edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley ; contributors, Stephanie M. Blalock [and eleven others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, Iowa : , : University Of Iowa Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Bohemianism - United States - History - 19th century |
| Bohemianism in literature | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WhitleyEdward Keyes |
| LevinJoanna | |
| BlalockStephanie M. | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | For several years just before and just after his 1860 edition of; Leaves of Grass; appeared, Walt Whitman regularly frequented Pfaff's beer cellar in downtown Manhattan. The basement bar was the very center of mid-nineteenth-century American bohemian activity and was heavily patronized by writers, artists, musicians, actors, intellectuals, and radicals such as free-love advocate Henry Clapp, Jr., and Broadway; succès de scandale; Adah Isaacs Menken. Numerous creative and political ventures emerged from this environment, and at least two bohemian literary weeklies,; The New-York Saturday Press and |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Whitman among the Bohemians |
| ISBN: | 1-60938-293-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812328303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Iowa Whitman series.