WALT WHITMAN AND THE AMERICAN READER by Ezra Greenspan ( 9780521109970 )

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WALT WHITMAN AND THE AMERICAN READER

By:

Ezra Greenspan

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0521109973

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 December, 2008

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture No. 46

Pages:

284

Description:

A far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer.

Synopsis:

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.

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