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Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

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Description for Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times Paperback.
Not many people know that Walt Whitman—arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century—began his literary career as a novelist. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman’s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies.

The novel tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theaters, and above all taverns, he gradually becomes a drunkard. ... Read more

The editors’ substantial introduction situates Franklin Evans in relation to Whitman’s life and career, mid-nineteenth-century American print culture, and many of the developments and institutions the novel depicts, including urbanization, immigration, slavery, the temperance movement, and new understandings of class, race, gender, and sexuality. This edition includes a short temperance story Whitman published at about the same time as he did Franklin Evans, the surviving fragment of what appears to be another unfinished temperance novel by Whitman, and a temperance speech Abraham Lincoln gave the same year that Franklin Evans was published.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822339427
SKU
V9780822339427
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About Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) was a poet, journalist, and essayist. His enormously influential poetry includes the collection Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. Christopher Castiglia is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst. Glenn Hendler is Associate Professor of ... Read more

Reviews for Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times
“Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler provide a truly state-of-the-art introduction to Walt Whitman’s only novel, a lively and thorough account of the varied contexts that best illuminate the significance of Whitman’s rough and rowdy tale.”—Michael Moon, author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass “Readers interested primarily in the social history of the country will find much ... Read more

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