Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year b…
How Whitman used his early notebooks -- Packing and unpacking the first Leaves of grass -- Kosmos poets and spinal ideas -- Poems of materials -- Whitman after collage/collage after Whitman.
The author explores the intimate relationships that contributed to Walt Whitman's imagination of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, the poet was trying to tempe…
N.a.v het boek "Leaves of grass" (1860) van de dichter Walt Whitman, waarin hij opkomt voor de rechten van de vrouw, beschrijft de auteur de relatie van Whitman met de 19e eeuwse vrouwenbeweging in de VS. Hierbij blijkt de invloed van feministische schrijfsters als Abby Hills Pr…
Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human exp…