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Walt Whitman's Multitudes
Jason Stacy
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Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855
出版Peter Lang, 2008
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralForeign Language Study / English as a Second LanguageHistory / GeneralHistory / Latin America / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Social HistoryLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / PoetrySocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Anthropology / PhysicalSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Regional Studies
ISBN14331038349781433103834
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RVAO9ezTneAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.