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Whitman's Ecstatic Union - Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
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Whitman's Ecstatic Union - Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
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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