Whitman possessed : poetry, sexuality, and popular authority /
This is a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. The author reads his works in relation to 19th-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration and political representation.
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2001.
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Online Access: | Table of contents |
Summary: | This is a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. The author reads his works in relation to 19th-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration and political representation. |
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Physical Description: | xii, 221 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0801867010 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Related Items: | Part of The Roger Asselineau Whitman Collection. |