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The Times of Melville and Whitman [1st Edition]

Author : Van Wyck Brooks
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787207846
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Times of Melville and Whitman [1st Edition] written by Van Wyck Brooks and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, first published in 1947, Pulitzer Prize winning author Van Wyck Brooks gives a superb recreation of a segment of American literary history, namely the period from approximately the 1840’s through to the 1890’s. Those were the days of Melville, Whitman, Mark Twain, Lanier, Bret Harte, Audubon, John Muir and a host of other major and minor writers. No other American critic quite possesses Brooks’ gift for making you see and feel and experience the life and times of these literary men and women. And the balanced critical evaluation that gives this book its statute is clothed in such vigorous and beautiful writing that the reader is unaware of the lifetime of research and study encompassed in this volume. Aside from the critical value, the narrative skill and the many beautiful prose passages, in The Times of Melville and Whitman Brooks gives the reader a vivid historical picture of what life was like in the last half of the nineteenth century. It is this ability to recreate the social background of the times that gives such richness to Brooks’ criticism. He has again made a major contribution to American letters with a book that is a real work of art—vigorous, balanced, erudite, and a pleasure to read.

The Times of Melville and Whitman

Author : Van Wyck Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Times of Melville and Whitman written by Van Wyck Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Times of Melville and Whitman

Author : Van Wyck Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Times of Melville and Whitman written by Van Wyck Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound galley proof of Brooks' book.

The Times of Melville and Whitman

Author : Brooks Van Wyck
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354714355
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Times of Melville and Whitman written by Brooks Van Wyck and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Times of Melville and Whitman

Author : Van Wyck Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Times of Melville and Whitman written by Van Wyck Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Times Melville Whitman

Author : Van Wyck Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Times Melville Whitman written by Van Wyck Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

Author : Anne Trubek
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205812
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses written by Anne Trubek and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.

Walking New York

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823263169
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Walking New York written by Stephen Miller and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk along with New York’s most celebrated writers on a tour of the city that inspired them in this “evolving portrait of New York through the centuries” (The New York Observer). ONE OF THE NEW YORK OBSERVER’S TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL It’s no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. But while many novelists, poets, and essayists have enjoyed long walks in New York, their experiences varied widely. Walking New York is a study of celebrated writers who walked the streets of New York and wrote about the city in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Though the writers were often irritated, disturbed, and occasionally shocked by what they saw on their walks, they were still fascinated by the city Cynthia Ozick called “faithfully inconstant, magnetic, man-made, unnatural—the synthetic sublime.” Returning to New York after an absence of two decades, Henry James loathed many things about “bristling” New York, while native New Yorker Walt Whitman both celebrated and criticized “Mannahatta” in his writings. This idiosyncratic guidebook combines literary scholarship with urban studies to reveal how this crowded, dirty, noisy, and sometimes ugly city gave these “restless analysts” plenty of fodder for their craft. In Walking New York, you’ll see the city though the eyes of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Jacob Riis, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, Alfred Kazin, Elizabeth Hardwick, Colson Whitehead, and Teju Cole.

Walt Whitman's America

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307761924
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman's America written by David S. Reynolds and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.

Beneath the American Renaissance

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199976406
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Beneath the American Renaissance written by David S. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.

Whitman among the Bohemians

Author : Joanna Levin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382722
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Whitman among the Bohemians written by Joanna Levin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several years just before and just after his 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass appeared, Walt Whitman regularly frequented Pfaff’s beer cellar in downtown Manhattan. The basement bar was the very center of mid-nineteenth-century American bohemian activity and was heavily patronized by writers, artists, musicians, actors, intellectuals, and radicals such as free-love advocate Henry Clapp, Jr., and Broadway succès de scandale Adah Isaacs Menken. Numerous creative and political ventures emerged from this environment, and at least two bohemian literary weeklies, The New-York Saturday Press and Vanity Fair, shared origins around the tables at Pfaff’s. In this milieu, Whitman found sympathetic supporters of his poetic vision, professional connections, rivals, romantic partners, and close friends, and left a lasting impression on poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman, an erstwhile bohemian who later in the century emerged as a tastemaker of American poetry. Yet for many years, the bohemians associated with Pfaff’s have served merely as minor background characters in Whitman scholarship. Whitman among the Bohemians corrects that by exploring in depth the connections Whitman made at Pfaff’s and the impact they had on him, his poetry, and his career. In telling the story of these intersecting social and professional links that converged at Pfaff’s in the late 1850s and early 1860s, the essays in this volume powerfully demonstrate just how much we can learn about Whitman and his work by viewing him within the context of American bohemia. CONTRIBUTORS: Stephanie Blalock, Ruth Bohan, Leif Eckstrom, Logan Esdale, Amanda Gailey, Karen Karbiener, Joanna Levin, Mary Loeffelholz, Eliza Richards, Ingrid Satelmajer, Robert J. Scholnick, Edward Whitley

Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth

Author : Stephen F. Knott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth written by Stephen F. Knott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Knott observes that Thomas Jefferson and his followers, and, later, Andrew Jackson and his adherents, tended to view Hamilton and his principles as "un-American." While his policies generated mistrust in the South and the West, where he is still seen as the founding plutocrat, Hamilton was revered in New England and parts of the mid-Atlantic states. Hamilton's image as a champion of American nationalism caused his reputation to soar during the Civil War, at least in the North. However, in the wake of Gilded Age excesses, progressive and populist political leaders branded Hamilton as the patron saint of Wall Street, and his reputation began to disintegrate."--BOOK JACKET.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman

Author : J.R. LeMaster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136700706
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman written by J.R. LeMaster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leading Whitman scholars as James E. Miller, Jr., Roger Asselineau, Betsy Erkkila, and Joel Myerson. Now available for the first time in paperback, this volume comprises more than 750 entries arranged in convenient alphabetical format. Coverage includes: biographical information: all names, dates, places, and events important to understanding Whitman's life and careerWhitman's works: essays on all eight editions of Leaves of Grass, major poems and poem clusters, principal essays and prose works, as well as his more than two dozen short stories and the novel, Franklin Evansprominent themes and concepts: essays on such major topics as democracy, slavery, the Civil War, immortality, sexuality, and the women's rights movement.significant forms and techniques: such as prosody, symbolism, free verse, and humourimportant trends and critical approaches in Whitman studies: including new historicist and cultural criticism, psychological explorations, and controversial issues of sexual identitysurveys of Whitman's international impact as well as an assessment of his literary legacy. Useful for students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and Whitman devotees, this volume features extensive cross-references, numerous photographs of the poet, a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry includes a bibliography for further study.

The New Walt Whitman Studies

Author : Matt Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419062
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The New Walt Whitman Studies written by Matt Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the latest currents in Whitman scholarship and demonstrates how Whitman's work transforms discussions in literary studies.

A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199728084
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman written by David S. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts, and the idea of democracy. The poet who emerges from this volume is no "solitary singer," distanced from his culture, but what he himself called "the age transfigured," fully enmeshed in his times and addressing issues that are still vital today.

Walt Whitman

Author : Milton Meltzer
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780761322726
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman written by Milton Meltzer and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the nineteenth-century poet, which presents his life in the context of his times, and includes samples of his writing.

Walt Whitman in Context

Author : Joanna Levin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108314473
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman in Context written by Joanna Levin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.