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Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679767091)
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David S. Reynolds
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xWinner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and
Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.
Author: David S. Reynolds
ISBN-10: 0679767096
ISBN-13: 9780679767091
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/19/1996
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.21w x 1.41d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/14/1996 pg. 32
New York Times 06/16/1996 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 02/19/1996
New York Review of Books 09/22/2005 pg. 22
Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.
Author: David S. Reynolds
ISBN-10: 0679767096
ISBN-13: 9780679767091
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/19/1996
Pages: 704
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.21w x 1.41d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/14/1996 pg. 32
New York Times 06/16/1996 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 02/19/1996
New York Review of Books 09/22/2005 pg. 22
By David S. Reynolds
xDavid S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Born and raised in Rhode Island, he received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has previously taught at Rutgers University, New York University, Barnard College, and Northwestern University. He is the author of the monumental Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville, winner of the Christian Gauss award. His other publications include Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America;George Lippard; and George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writintgs of an American Radical, 1822-1854 (edited anthology). He is the editor of George Lippard's novel The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall and the author of numerous articles and reviews in the field of American literature and culture, including "Of Me I Sing: Whitman in His Time" (The New York Times Book Review).
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