A political companion to Walt Whitman / edited by John E. Seery.

Other author Seery, John Evan.
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2011.
Descriptionix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPolitical companions to great American authors
Political companions to great American authors. ^A1063020
Contents Democratic vistas today / John E. Seery -- Individuality and connectedness. Walt Whitman and the culture of democracy / George Kateb -- Strange attractors: how individualists connect to form democratic unity / Nancy L. Rosenblum -- Mestiza poetics: Walt Whitman, Barack Obama, and the question of union / Cristina Beltrán -- Democratic desire: Walt Whitman / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The solar judgment of Walt Whitman / Jane Bennett -- City life and bodily place. "Mass merger": Whitman and Baudelaire, the modern street, and democratic culture / Marshall Berman -- Promiscuous citizenship / Jason Frank -- Walt Whitman and the ethnopoetics of New York / Michael J. Shapiro -- Democratic manliness / Terrell Carver -- Death and citizenship. Whitman as a political thinker / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Whitman, death, and democracy / Jack Turner -- Morbid democracies: the bodies politic of Walt Whitman and Richard Rorty / Kennan Ferguson -- Democratic enlightenment: Whitman and aesthetic education / Morton Schoolman.
Abstract A Political Companion to Walt Whitman is the first full-length exploration of Whitman's works through the lens of political theory. Editor John E. Seery and a collection of prominent theorists and philosophers uncover the political awareness of Whitman's poetry and prose, analyzing his faith in the potential of individuals, his call for a revolution in literature and political culture, and his belief in the possibility of combining heroic individualism with democratic justice. --from publisher description
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-352) and index.
LCCN 2010030300
ISBN9780813126548 (acid-free recycled paper)
ISBN0813126541 (acid-free recycled paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3242.P64 P65 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold