Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman by J. R. LeMaster (1998, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100815318766
ISBN-139780815318767
eBay Product ID (ePID)200320

Product Key Features

Number of Pages862 Pages
Publication NameRoutledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
SubjectGeneral, Poetry, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorJ. R. Lemaster
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight60.1 Oz
Item Length10.3 in
Item Width7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN98-014072
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal811.3
Table Of ContentActors and Actresses American Character The Atlantic Monthly Boston, Massachusetts Willa Cather "Children of Adam" The Civil War "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Democracy Democratic Vistas Education, Views on Evolution Freedom Human Body Internet, Whitman on the Labor and Laboring Classes Leaves of Grass Libraries (New York) Literature Motherhood Native Americans Nature "O Captain! My Captain!" Opera and Opera Singers Poetic Theory Religion St. Louis, Missouri Sentimentality Sex and Sexuality Short Fiction, Whitman's Slavery and Abolitionism "Song of Myself" The Soul Specimen Days Style and Technique(s) Temperance Movement Thoreau, Henry David Transcendentalism
SynopsisThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leading Whitman scholars as James E. Miller, Jr., Roger Asselineau, Betsy Erkkila, and Joel Myerson. Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume comprises more than 750 entries arranged in convenient alphabetical format. Coverage includes: biographical information: all names, dates, places, and events important to understanding Whitman's life and career Whitman's works: essays on all eight editions of "Leaves of Grass," major poems and poem clusters, principal essays and prose works, as well as his more than two dozen short stories and the novel, Franklin Evans prominent themes and concepts: essays on such major topics as democracy, slavery, the Civil War, immortality, sexuality, and the women's rights movement. significant forms and techniques: such as prosody, symbolism, free verse, and humour important trends and critical approaches in Whitman studies: including new historicist and cultural criticism, psychological explorations, and controversial issues of sexual identity surveys of Whitman's international impact as well as an assessment of his literary legacy. Useful for students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and Whitman devotees, this volume features extensive cross-references, numerous photographs of the poet, a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry includes a bibliography for further study.
LC Classification NumberPS3230.W35 1998
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