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

ISBN-13: 9780198840930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Kenneth M. Price

Opis

This book analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to reevaluate the writer and the nation's capital in a time of transformation.

Recenzje

Written with clarity and impressively researched, this study offers a remarkable picture of a key period in Whitman's life.

O autorze

Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.