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.
Subjects:	Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Political and social views. Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation. Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 19th century. Power (Social sciences) in literature. Male homosexuality in literature. Possessiveness in literature. Masculinity in literature. Authority in literature. Gay men in literature. Self in literature. Sex in literature. Poetics.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Sexual hygiene: the natural gates and alleys of the body
Ravishment and rapture
Masses and muses
Fictions of possession.