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A political companion to Walt Whitman

A political companion to Walt Whitman [electronic resource] / edited by John E. Seery. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 373 p. :) ill. ; - Political companions to great American authors . - Political companions to great American authors. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-352) and index.

Democratic vistas today / John E. Seery -- Individuality and connectedness -- Walt Whitman and the culture of democracy / George Kateb -- Strange attractors: how individualists connect to form democratic unity / Nancy L. Rosenblum -- Mestiza poetics: Walt Whitman, Barack Obama, and the question of union / Cristina Beltrán -- Democratic desire: Walt Whitman / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The solar judgment of Walt Whitman / Jane Bennett -- City life and bodily place -- "Mass merger": Whitman and Baudelaire, the modern street, and democratic culture / Marshall Berman -- Promiscuous citizenship / Jason Frank -- Walt Whitman and the ethnopoetics of New York / Michael J. Shapiro -- Democratic manliness / Terrell Carver -- Death and citizenship -- Whitman as a political thinker / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Whitman, death, and democracy / Jack Turner -- Morbid democracies: the bodies politic of Walt Whitman and Richard Rorty / Kennan Ferguson -- Democratic enlightenment: Whitman and aesthetic education / Morton Schoolman.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Political and social views.


Democracy in literature.


Electronic books.

PS3242.P64 / P65 2011

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