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

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505 0 |a Sexual hygiene: the natural gates and alleys of the body -- Ravishment and rapture -- Masses and muses -- Fictions of possession. 
520 |a 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. 
580 |a Part of The Roger Asselineau Whitman Collection. 
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600 1 0 |a Whitman, Walt,  |d 1819-1892  |x Political and social views. 
650 0 |a Power (Social sciences) in literature. 
650 0 |a Male homosexuality in literature. 
650 0 |a Possessiveness in literature. 
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650 0 |a Self in literature. 
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650 0 |a Poetics. 
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