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Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays
Susan Belasco
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Description for Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays
Paperback. Contains seventeen essays by pre-eminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus on Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". This book features contributors who treat Whitman's poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic issues, and nineteenth-century America. Editor(s): Belasco, Susan; Price, Kenneth M.; Folsom, Ed. Num Pages: 503 pages, 13 photograhs, index. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 668.
This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collector’s item, this edition is now viewed as the poet’s most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy. The essays weave a rich tapestry of the most current, innovative criticism on this foundational book of American poetry. The contributors treat Whitman’s poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic ... Read more
This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collector’s item, this edition is now viewed as the poet’s most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy. The essays weave a rich tapestry of the most current, innovative criticism on this foundational book of American poetry. The contributors treat Whitman’s poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
503
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803260009
SKU
V9780803260009
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About Susan Belasco
Susan Belasco is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the editor of Whitman's Poems in Periodicals for The Walt Whitman Archive. Ed Folsom is the Carver Professor of English at the University of Iowa, coeditor of The Walt Whitman Archive, and editor of Whitman East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman. Kenneth M. Price ... Read more
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