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Walt Whitman’s Multitudes

Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

In the fifteen years before the publication of (1855), Walt Whitman constructed three authoritative voices by which he engaged the upheavals endemic to the Industrial Revolution. Through these public personas, found mostly in his journalism, Whitman offered remedies for American artisans who had lost their economic autonomy and status. Instead of attacking broad forces beyond worker control, Whitman blamed artisans for oppressing themselves through the temptations of consumerism and affectation. places the first edition of on par with Whitman’s journalism and exposes a writer different from most poetry-directed analyses. In doing so, it traces Whitman’s public voice as he wrestled intimately with the debates of his day: conspicuous consumption, nativism, slavery, and, through it all, labor and the status of the new working class.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-0383-4 / 978-1433103834 / 9781433103834

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 30.05.2008

Seiten: 170

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Jason Stacy

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