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The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
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“I dreamed in a dream of a city where all men were like brothers,” Whitman wrote in the poem that would

invincible”) are now inscribed on the Camden city hall (LG 1860, 373).

On the eve of the American Civil War in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, Whitman is no longer singing an actu

at the time of the founding were be- ginning to tear the American union apart at the seams.

,moreardent,more general,” Whitman presents the 1860 Leaves of Grass as the “New Bible” of the American

Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
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My first impressions, architectural, &c. were not favorable; but upon the whole, the city, the spaces,

Culture (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 8. x  The city’s monuments were of special

The possibilities for African American life were unresolved at this time, as were the possibilities for

Washington’s black population tripled by 1870, jumping from 19 percent of the city’s total population

Mapping American Culture. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1992. French, R. W.

The Furtive Hen and the Cat Whose Tail Was Too Long: On Whitman's Traces

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Corona, Mario
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After 1860, Whitman's narrative strategy veers in the opposite direction.

The song satirized the American craze pervading Italy at that time.

The book opens of course with a "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American."

On the whole it sounds to me very brave & American after whatever deductions.

Whereupon we went and had a good dinner at the American House.

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In 1963-65 he was an Instructor in Italian Language and Literature at Columbia University, New York City

As his interest in Anglo-American Literature grew, between 1965 and 1990 he taught full courses at Bocconi

concentrating on Puritanism (I Puritani d'America, Cuem, Milan, 1972; enlarged, Aracne, Rome, 2009) and the "American

In 1987-91 he held the chair of American Literature at the University of Messina (Co-editor, with Giuseppe

This essay originates from and summates Corona's previous work on Whitman and on the authors of the American

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