Song of Ourselves : : Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy /

Song of Ourselves : : Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy / / Mark Edmundson.

In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman’s journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself. Esteemed cultural and literary thinker Mark...

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Edmundson, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Citations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Song of Ourselves
  • I Celebrate Myself
  • Undisguised and Naked
  • The Marriage of Self and Soul
  • The Grass
  • All In
  • A Vision of Democracy
  • These States
  • Songs of Triumph
  • Poet of the Body
  • The Sun
  • The Generative God
  • The Animals
  • Walt Becomes Other
  • A Massacre
  • A Sea Fight
  • American Jesus
  • Democratic Götterdämmerung
  • Walt and the Priests
  • Walt’s God
  • Walt and the Reader
  • Death and Democracy
  • Part II: In the Hospitals
  • Publication
  • In Washington
  • Letters Home
  • Tom Sawyer
  • The Vision Completed
  • Part III: Song of Myself (1855)
  • Song of Myself
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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