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Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile (Iowa Whitman Series)
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Paperback. Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, this title offers a diagnosis of democracy's failures and lays out its vast possibilities. It also includes an assessment of the ongoing social experiment known as the United States. Editor(s): Folsom, Ed. Series Editor(s): Folsom, Ed. Series: Iowa Whitman Series. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DNF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 123 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's ""Democratic Vistas"" remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Diagnosing democracy's failures as well as laying out its vast possibilities, Whitman offers an unflinching assessment of the ongoing social experiment known as the United States. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts, this searing analysis of American culture offers readers today the opportunity ... Read more
Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's ""Democratic Vistas"" remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Diagnosing democracy's failures as well as laying out its vast possibilities, Whitman offers an unflinching assessment of the ongoing social experiment known as the United States. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts, this searing analysis of American culture offers readers today the opportunity ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Iowa Whitman Series
Condition
New
Weight
221g
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781587298707
SKU
V9781587298707
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About Unknown
Ed Folsom is Roy J. Carver Professor of English and editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review at the University of Iowa. Coeditor of the Walt Whitman Archive, he is the author of Walt Whitman's Native Representations, coeditor of Walt Whitman and the World (IOWA 1995), and editor of Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (IOWA 1994), among many other publications. ... Read more
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