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Whitman's Ecstatic Union - Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass (Hardcover)
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Whitman's Ecstatic Union - Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
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"Whitman's Ecstatic Union" rereads the first three editions of
Leaves of Grass within the context of a nineteenth-century
antebellum evangelical culture of conversion. Though Whitman
intended to write a new American Bible and "inaugurate a religion,"
contemporary scholarship has often ignored the religious element in
his poetry. But just as evangelists sought the redemption of
America through the reconstruction of individual subjects in
conversion, Leaves of Grass sought to redeem the nation by inducing
ecstatic, regenerating experiences in its readers. "Whitman's
Ecstatic Union "explores the ecstasy of conversion as a liminal
moment outside of language and culture, and-employing Althusser's
model of ideological interpellation and anthropological models of
religious ritual-shows how evangelicalism remade subjects by
inducing ecstasy and instilling new narratives of identity. The
book analyzes Whitman's historical relationship to preaching and
conversion and reads the 1855 "Song of Myself" as a conversion
narrative. A focus on the 1856 edition and the poem "To You"
explores the sacred seductions at the heart of Whitman's poetry.
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and Whitman's vision of a world of
perfect miracles are then connected to a conception of universal
affection, uncannily paralleling Jonathan Edward's ideal of "love
to being in general." A conclusion looks toward the transformations
of Whitman's vision in the 1860 edition.
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