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Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle (Hardcover)
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Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle (Hardcover)
Series: Iowa Whitman Series
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By reconsidering Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American
diversity, but as a historically specific poet with roots in the
antebellum lower middle class, Andrew Lawson in ""Walt Whitman and
the Class Struggle"" defines the tensions and ambiguities about
culture, class, and politics that underlie his poetry. Drawing on a
wealth of primary sources from across the range of antebellum print
culture, Lawson uses close readings of ""Leaves of Grass"" to
reveal Whitman as an artisan and an autodidact ambivalently
balanced between his sense of the injustice of class privilege and
his desire for distinction. Consciously drawing upon the languages
of both the elite culture above him and the vernacular culture
below him, Whitman constructed a kind of middle linguistic register
that attempted to filter these conflicting strata and defuse their
tensions: ""You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take
things from me, / You shall listen to all sides and filter them
from yourself."" By exploring Whitman's internal struggle with the
contradictions and tensions of his class identity, Lawson locates
the source of his poetic innovation. By revealing a class-conscious
and conflicted Whitman, he realigns our understanding of the poet's
political identity and distinctive use of language, and thus
valuably alters our perspective on his poetry.
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