A political companion to Walt Whitman /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Seery, John Evan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2011]
Series:Political companions to great American authors.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Democratic vistas today / John E. Seery
  • Individuality and connectedness
  • Walt Whitman and the culture of democracy / George Kateb
  • Strange attractors: how individualists connect to form democratic unity / Nancy L. Rosenblum
  • Mestiza poetics: Walt Whitman, Barack Obama, and the question of union / Cristina Beltrán
  • Democratic desire: Walt Whitman / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • The solar judgment of Walt Whitman / Jane Bennett
  • City life and bodily place
  • "Mass merger": Whitman and Baudelaire, the modern street, and democratic culture / Marshall Berman
  • Promiscuous citizenship / Jason Frank
  • Walt Whitman and the ethnopoetics of New York / Michael J. Shapiro
  • Democratic manliness / Terrell Carver
  • Death and citizenship
  • Whitman as a political thinker / Peter Augustine Lawler
  • Whitman, death, and democracy / Jack Turner
  • Morbid democracies: the bodies politic of Walt Whitman and Richard Rorty / Kennan Ferguson
  • Democratic enlightenment: Whitman and aesthetic education / Morton Schoolman.