登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity
David Haven Blake
出版
Yale University Press
, 2006
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN
0300217137
9780300217131
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YZtmrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity.
Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees
Leaves of Grass
alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself.
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity
proposes a fundamentally new way of thinking about a seminal American poet and a major national icon.