The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

ISBN-13: 9780815318767 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 862 str.

J. R. LeMaster; Donald D. Kummings

Opis

Walt Whitman fully absorbed 19th-century cultural life, both reflecting and transfiguring it through his poetry and prose. This encyclopaedia gathers information on Whitman from a variety of sources, and presents more than 750 entries in an A-Z format. Over 200 contributions include short entries, and longer in-depth essays. An appendix of Whitman's ancestry and a chronology is also included.

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.