Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work by Price, Kenneth M.

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405118187)

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Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work by Price, Kenneth M.

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work

$41.95
Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work by Price, Kenneth M.

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work

$41.95
Format: Paperback
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This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works.

- An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman.

- Weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works.

- Focuses especially on Whitman's evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass.

- Examines the material conditions and products of Whitman's "scripted life", including his original manuscripts.

- Investigates Whitman's "life in print" - his belief that he could literally embody himself in his books.

- Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman's work at www.whitmanarchive.org



Author: Ed Folsom, Kenneth M. Price
ISBN-10: 1405118180
ISBN-13: 9781405118187
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2005
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.10w x 0.51d
By Ed Folsom
By Ed Folsom
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Ed Folsom is Carver Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive and the author or editor of five books on Whitman, including Walt Whitman's Native Representations (1994) and Whitman East and West (1992).

Kenneth M. Price is the Hillegass Professor of American Literature at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the co-director of the Walt Whitman archive, editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews, and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in his Century (1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (2004).

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