Walt Whitman in Context

Author : Joanna Levin (Chapman University, California)

Hardback

Published : Thursday 31 May 2018

ISBN : 9781108418959

Price : €92.42

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Walt Whitman in Context

by Joanna Levin (Chapman University, California)

Hardback

31 May 2018

LITERARY CRITICISM
>> American

€92.42

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Designed for students and scholars, Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural and political - in which to engage Whitman's life and work.

Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.

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