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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.
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of
small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River
Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a
bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the
book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as
the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in
1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while
becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy
charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's
work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films
and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then
conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three
archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the
landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A
wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River
America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped
change a nation's conception of itself.
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of
small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River
Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a
bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the
book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as
the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in
1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while
becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy
charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's
work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films
and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then
conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three
archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the
landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A
wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River
America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped
change a nation's conception of itself.
Over the last fifteen years, undergraduate U.S. history courses
have made great progress in incorporating primary sources and
diverse voices into the survey. However, teachers still struggle to
find professional writing by working historians in a format useful
to undergraduates. Also, in 2014, the College Board redesigned the
AP U.S. History curriculum and assessments to require students to
demonstrate a critical approach to historical writing by
professional historians. These facts have increased demand among
teachers for access to high-quality secondary material by
professional historians in a single, convenient publication. Past
Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History selects some
of the best articles from The Journal of American History to meet
the needs of students and teachers of the U.S. history survey.
Exploring all of the required "key concepts" and "historical
thinking skills" required in the new AP U.S. History curriculum,
the book provides pedagogical and historiographical supports for
each article. It also contains concise academic biographies of the
authors that highlight their path to practicing history and their
major publications, which will draw students deeper into historical
discourses.
Tracing the troubled roots of American capitalism and imperialism
Coedited by noted Masters scholar, Jason Stacy, and his class,
“Editing History,” this annotated edition of Edgar Lee
Masters’s The New Star Chamber and Other Essays reappears at a
perilous time in US history, when large corporations and overseas
conflicts once again threaten the integrity of American rights and
liberties, and the United States still finds itself beholden to
corporate power and the legacy of imperial hubris. In speaking to
his times, Masters also speaks to ours. These thirteen essays lay
bare the political ideology that informed Spoon River Anthology.
Masters argues that the dangerous imperialism championed by
then-President Theodore Roosevelt was rooted in the Constitution
itself. By debating the ethics of the Philippine-American War,
criticizing Hamiltonian centralization of government, and extolling
the virtues of Jeffersonian individualism, Masters elucidates the
ways in which America had strayed from its constitutional morals
and from democracy itself. The result is a compelling critique of
corporate capitalism and burgeoning American imperialism, as well
as an exemplary source for understanding its complicated author in
the midst of his transformation from urban lawyer to poet of rural
America. In print again for the first time since 1904, this edition
includes an introduction and historical annotations throughout.
Edited and annotated by students at Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, and designed and illustrated by students at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, this volume traces economic and
political pathologies to the origins of the American republic. The
New Star Chamber and Other Essays is as vital now as it was over
100 years ago.
Long before he was a celebrated poet, Walt Whitman was a working
journalist. By the time he published the first edition of Leaves of
Grass in 1855, Whitman had edited three newspapers and published
thousands of reviews, editorials, and human-interest stories in
newspapers in and around New York City. Yet for decades, much of
his journalism has been difficult to access or even find. For the
first time, Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism thematically and
chronologically organizes a compelling selection of Whitman's
journalism from the late 1830s to the Civil War. It includes
writings from the poet's first immersion into the burgeoning
democratic culture of antebellum America to the war that
transformed both the poet and the nation. Walt Whitman's Selected
Journalism covers Whitman's early years as a part-time editorialist
and ambivalent schoolteacher between 1838 and 1841. After 1841, it
follows his work as a dedicated full-time newspaperman and editor,
most prominently at the New York Aurora and the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle between 1842 and 1848. After 1848 and up to the Civil War,
Whitman's journalism shows his slow transformation from daily
newspaper editor to poet. This volume gathers journalism from
throughout these early years in his career, focusing on reporting,
reviews, and editorials on politics and democratic culture, the
arts, and the social debates of his day. It also includes some of
Whitman's best early reportage, in the form of the short, personal
pieces he wrote that aimed to give his readers a sense of immediacy
of experience as he guided them through various aspects of daily
life in America's largest metropolis. Over time, journalism's
limitations pushed Whitman to seek another medium to capture and
describe the world and the experience of America with words. In
this light, today's readers of Whitman are doubly indebted to his
career in journalism. In presenting Whitman-the-journalist in his
own words here, and with useful context and annotations by renowned
scholars, Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism illuminates for
readers the future poet's earliest attempts to speak on behalf of
and to the entire American republic.
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