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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

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