Walt Whitman
A Literary Life
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Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman’s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman’s poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps) and those poems written during the last twenty years of his life. Wagner-Martin’s study also emphasizes the near-poverty that Whitman experienced. Starting with his early career as a printer and journalist, the book moves to the publication of Leaves of Grass, and his cultivation of the persona of the “working-class” writer. In addition to establishing Whitman’s attention to the Civil War through journalism and memoirs, the book takes the approach of following Whitman’s life through his poems. Utilizing contemporary perspectives on class, Wagner-Martin provides a new reading of Whitman’s economic situation. This is an accessibly written synthesis of Whitman’s publication history bringing attentionto under-studied aspects of his writing.
Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman’s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman’s poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps) and those poems written during the last twenty years of his life. Wagner-Martin’s study also emphasizes the near-poverty that Whitman experienced. Starting with his early career as a printer and journalist, the book moves to the publication of Leaves of Grass, and his cultivation of the persona of the “working-class” writer. In addition to establishing Whitman’s attention to the Civil War through journalism and memoirs, the book takes the approach of following Whitman’s life through his poems. Utilizing contemporary perspectives on class, Wagner-Martin provides a new reading of Whitman’s economic situation. This is an accessibly written synthesis of Whitman’s publication history bringing attention to under-studied aspects of his writing.
Incorporates history on two popular topics: the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln Emphasizes the reality of Whitman’s economic situation as a “working-class” writer in contrast to his contemporaries Reads Whitman's life through his poetry
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Linda Wagner-Martin
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Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Abraham Lincoln the American Civil War working class writer nineteenth-century American literature American poetry Literature and Class Literature and Economics pastoral
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“Using her intimate knowledge of both Whitman scholarship and nineteenth-century social and cultural history in a magisterial but also tactful way, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a reading of the life and work of Walt Whitman that is original and utterly persuasive. This book rewrites the story of a seminal figure in American literature and reconfigures our understanding of American culture in the nineteenth century.” (Richard Gray, Fellow of the British Academy, and author of After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11 (2011))
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