In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra Greenspan casts
Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century
American literary culture - a culture redefining its democratic
identity. Against the context of the major changes revolutionising
the professions of printer, publisher, bookseller and author, he
examines the connection between the bookmaking culture of
mid-century and Leaves of Grass, and between the conditions for
authorship and Whitman's career. The result is a far-ranging study
of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer
writing for - and sometimes reacting against - the newly
enfranchised, expanded reading public of his time.
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