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Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman
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A Transatlantic Perspective
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Artikel-Nr:
9780748635740
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.09.2009
Seiten:
312
Autor:
Günter Leypoldt
Gewicht:
612 g
Format:
236x157x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Günter Leypoldt is Professor of American Literature at the University of Heidelberg.
This book deals with narratives of cultural legitimation in nineteenth-century US literature, in a transatlantic context.
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Whitman and the 'Lawless Music' of American Culture; 1. The 19th Century Intellectual Field; 2. US Discourse and the Expressivist Turn; 3. The Poet as Orphic Singer: Ralph Waldo Emerson; 4. Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future; 5. The Music of America; 6. National Identity and the Smell of the Woods; 7. The Democratic Muse; 8. Contemporary Reception; 9. Whitman among the Moderns; Epilog: After the American Renaissance; Bibliography; Primary Works; Secondary Works; Index.