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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser.: Walt Whitman and the American Reader by Ezra Greenspan (1990, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521384699
ISBN-139780521384698
eBay Product ID (ePID)1137802
Product Key Features
Number of Pages282 Pages
Publication NameWalt Whitman and the American Reader
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
SubjectAmerican / General, Poetry, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading
TypeTextbook
AuthorEzra Greenspan
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesCambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN90-001474
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Ezra Greenspan has brought together an abundance of information that he puts to good use in constructing a context for the emergence of Whitman from journeyman printer to journalist to poet....This is a fresh and comprehensive study." Paul Kane, Journal of American History, "Greenspan retraces Whitman's early life along tightly professional lines, stressing his activities as printer, journalist, editor, and popular author. He then provides illuminating commentary on the first three editions of Leaves of Grass in terms of Whitman's shifting attitudes toward the popular readership...a good number of the links he draws between Whitman and his culture are quite original and perceptive." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 46
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal811/.3
Table Of ContentPreface; Part I. Whitman and the Conditions for Authorship in Nineteenth-century America: 1. Homage to the tenth muse; 2. The evolution of American literary culture, 1820-50; 3. Going forth into literary America; 4. 'I am a writer, for the press and otherwise'; Part II. Whitman, Leaves of Grass and the Reader: 5. Intentions and ambitions; 6. Whitman and the reader, 1855; 7. The public response; 8. Whitman and the reader, 1856; 9. 'Publish yourself of your own personality'; 10. 1860: 'year of meteors'; 11. Whitman and his readers through the century; Notes; Index.
SynopsisIn Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture - a culture redefining its democratic identity., In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture--a culture redefining its democratic identity. Against the context of the major changes revolutionizing the professions of printer, publisher, bookseller, and author, he examines the connection between the bookmaking culture of mid-century and Leaves of Grass, and between the conditions for authorship and Whitman's career. The result is a far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer writing for--and sometimes reacting against--the newly enfranchised, expanded reading public of his time., In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture - a culture redefining its democratic identity. Against the context of the major changes revolutionising the professions of printer, publisher, bookseller and author, he examines the connection between the bookmaking culture of mid-century and Leaves of Grass, and between the conditions for authorship and Whitman's career. The result is a far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer writing for - and sometimes reacting against - the newly enfranchised, expanded reading public of his time.
LC Classification NumberPS3237.4.U6 G74 1990
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