Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis The Journalism: 1834-1846 by : Walt Whitman
Download or read book The Journalism: 1834-1846 written by Walt Whitman and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journalism, Volume I: 1834-1846, the definitive, authoritative, MLA scholarly edition, is a volume in «The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman», the Whitman «Writings» that «every library should own» (Choice). Volume I reprints 589 Whitman editorials, articles, essays, other prose matter, and poems from 20 journals, including 5 newspapers that Whitman edited. These writings were hitherto unreprinted or uncollected, or only available in out-of-print limited collections, most with unreliable texts. The Journalism includes a detailed, meticulously documented introduction, reliable texts, substantial annotation (752 notes), thorough textual tables (763 items), and a comprehensive index. Providing essential documents, The Journalism is indispensable for understanding Leaves of Grass and the views and milieu of America's greatest poet. The volume, moreover, is useful in such areas as history, journalism, American studies, and popular culture. Whitman's journalistic writings cover a wide range of subjects: war, slavery, politics, government, economic matters, labor, immigration, social concerns (crime and punishment, poverty, minority rights, women's rights, health, education), the press, religion, literature, drama, music, art. And Whitman's views on these subjects are as relevant today as they were in the nineteenth century.