Song of Ourselves Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy |
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| Author:
| Edmundson, Mark |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-23716-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2021 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"--obsessed with the noble and great--Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War.
Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"--obsessed with the noble and great--Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War.