Walt Whitman's Multitudes - Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First "Leaves of Grass", 1840-1855 (Hardcover, New edition)

In the fifteen years before the publication of Leaves of Grass (1855), Walt Whitman constructed three authoritative voices by which he engaged the upheavals endemic to the Industrial Revolution. Through these public personas, found mostly in his journalism, Whitman offered remedies for American artisans who had lost their economic autonomy and status. Instead of attacking broad forces beyond worker control, Whitman blamed artisans for oppressing themselves through the temptations of consumerism and affectation. Walt Whitman's Multitudes places the first edition of Leaves of Grass on par with Whitman's journalism and exposes a writer different from most poetry-directed analyses. In doing so, it traces Whitman's public voice as he wrestled intimately with the debates of his day: conspicuous consumption, nativism, slavery, and, through it all, labor and the status of the new working class.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Jason Stacy
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	170
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0153-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-4331-0153-X
Barcode:	9781433101533

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