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29%OFFTed Genoways - Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862 - 9780520259065 - V9780520259065
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Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862

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Description for Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862 Hardback. Shortly after the third edition of "Leaves of Grass" was published in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, only to emerge two and a half years later. This work reconstructs the forgotten years of Whitman through letters and manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through newspapers and magazines in which he published. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
Shortly after the third edition of "Leaves of Grass" was published in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg, two and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as evidence of Whitman's indifference to the Civil War during its critical early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years - locating Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period newspapers and magazines in which ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520259065
SKU
V9780520259065
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About Ted Genoways
Ted Genoways is the editor of Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII and the series editor of the correspondence for the online Walt Whitman Archive. He is also the author of two volumes of poetry and the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Reviews for Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862
"Genoways' account fills in a major gap in previous biographies of Whitman and rebuts the canard that Whitman was unaffected by the war and the run-up to it."
Jay Strafford Richmond Times-Dispatch "A wonderful book."
Barbara Rich Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va) "Paints a vivid picture of an evolving America reacting to an internal conflict that virtually no one ... Read more

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