Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-213) and index.
Sexual hygiene: the natural gates and alleys of the body -- Ravishment and rapture -- Masses and muses -- Fictions of possession.
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This is a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. The author reads his works in relation to 19th-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration and political representation.
Whitman possessed.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Political and social views.
Authority in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Homosexuality and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.