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Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity / / David Haven Blake



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Autore: Blake David Haven Visualizza persona
Titolo: Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity / / David Haven Blake Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 251 p.) ) : ill
Disciplina: 811/.3
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Soggetto topico: Poets, American - 19th century
Publicity
Fame - Economic aspects
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontispiece -- Celebrity -- Personality -- Publicity -- Intimacies -- Campaigns.
Sommario/riassunto: What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity proposes a fundamentally new way of thinking about a seminal American poet and a major national icon.
Titolo autorizzato: Walt Whitman and the culture of American celebrity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-73491-8
9786611734916
0-300-13481-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827701703321
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