Walt Whitman & the class struggle / / Andrew Lawson

• Autore: Lawson Andrew <1959 July 4->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.3
• Soggetto topico: Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century; Social classes in literature; Social conflict in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-142) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: By 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Walt Whtiman and the class struggle
• Titolo autorizzato: Walt Whitman & the class struggle
• ISBN: 9781587296703; 1587296705
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972640403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Iowa Whitman series.