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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maslan, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Description
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.
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.