The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

ISBN-13: 9780415890571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 848 str.

Opis

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leading Whitman scholars as James E. Miller, Jr., Roger Asselineau, Betsy Erkkila, and Joel Myerson. Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume comprises more than 750 entries arranged in convenient alphabetical format. Coverage includes: biographical information: all names, dates, places, and events important to understanding Whitman's life and career Whitman's works: essays on all eight editions of Leaves of Grass, major poems and poem clusters, principal essays and prose works, as well as his more than two dozen short stories and the novel, Franklin Evans prominent themes and concepts: essays on such major topics as democracy, slavery, the Civil War, immortality, sexuality, and the women's rights movement. significant forms and techniques: such as prosody, symbolism, free verse, and humour important trends and critical approaches in Whitman studies: including new historicist and cultural criticism, psychological explorations, and controversial issues of sexual identity surveys of Whitman's international impact as well as an assessment of his literary legacy.

Recenzje

'A reference work so comprehensive as to have no true precedent for readers of Whitman. This is a volume that both institutions and individual scholars will wish to have on their Whitman bookshelves, where they will soon find it an indispensable resource.' - Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

'The best reference books fan the flame of student interest, nudging them from the need for an answer to the desire to know more. This encyclopedia does just that and more...' - School Library Journal

'[D]estined to be the 'Open Sesame' to a new wave of Whitman scholarship in the coming millennium. What a cornucopia of topics for the classroom teacher to provide for their students. It belongs in every day library, private or public, and in schools and university libraries at home and abroad. To the editors, contributors and their publisher: BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!' - The Walt Whitman Circle

'[A] useful and impressive volume...LeMaster and Kummings are to be commended for the diversity of entries and the attention to the details. Recommended for all libraries.' - Choice

'Walt Whitman is arguably America's greatest poet and as such is deserving of a single volume encyclopedia devoted to his life and work. Now he has one... The range and depth of coverage in Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia is impressive and does ample justice to its topic. Public and academic libraries with interest in American literature will want it in their collection.' - Against the Grain

Spis treści

Actors and Actresses  American Character  The Atlantic Monthly  Boston, Massachusetts  Willa Cather  "Children of Adam"  The Civil War  "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"  Democracy  Democratic Vistas  Education, Views on  Evolution  Freedom  Human Body  Internet, Whitman on the  Labor and Laboring Classes  Leaves of Grass  Libraries (New York)  Literature  Motherhood  Native Americans  Nature  "O Captain! My Captain!"  Opera and Opera Singers  Poetic Theory  Religion  St. Louis, Missouri  Sentimentality  Sex and Sexuality  Short Fiction, Whitman's  Slavery and Abolitionism  "Song of Myself"  The Soul  Specimen Days  Style and Technique(s)  Temperance Movement  Thoreau, Henry David  Transcendentalism

O autorze

J. R. LeMaster is Emeritas Professor of English at Baylor University.

Donald D. Kummings is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.