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Title: Walt Whitman’s Multitudes Condition: New Subtitle: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First "Leaves of Grass", 1840-1855 Author: Jason Stacy Format: Hardback EAN: 9781433101533 ISBN: 9781433101533 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: History, Society & Culture Release Date: 04/12/2008 Description: In the fifteen years before the publication of Leaves of Grass (1855), Walt Whitman constructed three authoritative voices by which he engaged the upheavals endemic to the Industrial Revolution. Through these public personas, found mostly in his journalism, Whitman offered remedies for American artisans who had lost their economic autonomy and status. Instead of attacking broad forces beyond worker control, Whitman blamed artisans for oppressing themselves through the temptations of consumerism and affectation. Walt Whitman’s Multitudes places the first edition of Leaves of Grass on par with Whitman’s journalism and exposes a writer different from most poetry-directed analyses. In doing so, it traces Whitman’s public voice as he wrestled intimately with the debates of his day: conspicuous consumption, nativism, slavery, and, through it all, labor and the status of the new working class. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 230mm Item Length: 160mm Item Weight: 460g Release Year: 2008 Missing Information?
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