Walt Whitman and the American Reader
In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture—a culture redefining its democratic identity. Against the context of the major changes revolutionizing the professions of printer, publisher, bookseller, and author, he examines the connection between the bookmaking culture of mid-century and Leaves of Grass, and between the conditions for authorship and Whitman's career. The result is a far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer writing for—and sometimes reacting against—the newly enfranchised, expanded reading public of his time.
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Walt Whitman and the American Reader
In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture—a culture redefining its democratic identity. Against the context of the major changes revolutionizing the professions of printer, publisher, bookseller, and author, he examines the connection between the bookmaking culture of mid-century and Leaves of Grass, and between the conditions for authorship and Whitman's career. The result is a far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer writing for—and sometimes reacting against—the newly enfranchised, expanded reading public of his time.
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Walt Whitman and the American Reader

Walt Whitman and the American Reader

by Ezra Greenspan
Walt Whitman and the American Reader

Walt Whitman and the American Reader

by Ezra Greenspan

Overview

In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture—a culture redefining its democratic identity. Against the context of the major changes revolutionizing the professions of printer, publisher, bookseller, and author, he examines the connection between the bookmaking culture of mid-century and Leaves of Grass, and between the conditions for authorship and Whitman's career. The result is a far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer writing for—and sometimes reacting against—the newly enfranchised, expanded reading public of his time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521109970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/30/2009
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #46
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Whitman and the Conditions for Authorship in Nineteenth-century America: 1. Homage to the tenth muse; 2. The evolution of American literary culture, 1820–50; 3. Going forth into literary America; 4. 'I am a writer, for the press and otherwise'; Part II. Whitman, Leaves of Grass and the Reader: 5. Intentions and ambitions; 6. Whitman and the reader, 1855; 7. The public response; 8. Whitman and the reader, 1856; 9. 'Publish yourself of your own personality'; 10. 1860: 'year of meteors'; 11. Whitman and his readers through the century; Notes; Index.
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