Walt Whitman and the American Reader
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In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra 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 revolutionising 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521109973
ISBN13:9780521109970
Release Date:April 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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