DISSEMINATING WHITMAN by Michael Moon ( 9780674212459 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

DISSEMINATING WHITMAN
REVISION AND CORPOREALITY IN "LEAVES OF GRASS"

By:

Michael Moon

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0674212452

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9780674212459

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Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1993

Pages:

262

Description:

Within 12 years of the first appearance of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, Whitman produced three further editions. Michael Moon concludes that what was subjected to revision was an historically specific set of principles governing how the human body was conceptualized in mid-19th-century America.

Synopsis:

Within 12 years of the first appearance of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, Walt Whitman produced three other editions. Michael Moon, interpreting "revision" more profoundly than earlier Whitman critics have done, while treating the poet's homosexuality as a cultural and political as well as a biographical fact, shows how Whitman's continual modifications of his work intersect with the representations of male-male desire throughout his writing. What is subjected to endless revision throughout the first four edition of "Leaves of Grass" is a historically specific set of principles governing how the human body was conceptualized and controlled in mid-19th century America.

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