Walt Whitman in Context
- ISBN-10
- 1108311474
- ISBN-13
- 9781108311472
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-31
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Joanna Levin, Edward Whitley
Description
Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
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