Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

ISBN-13: 9780300217131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str.

Blake, David

Opis

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity.