Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-142) and index.
Introduction : the Whitman myth -- 1. Sex, class, and commerce -- 2. The American 1848 -- 3. The class struggle in language -- Postscript : material resistance.
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By reconsidering Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American diversity but as a historically specific poet with roots in the antebellum lower middle class, Andrew Lawson in Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle defines the tensions and ambiguities about culture, class, and politics that underlie his poetry. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources from across the range of antebellum print culture, Lawson uses close readings of Leaves of Grass to reveal Whitman as an artisan and an autodidact ambivalently balanced between his sense of the injustice of class privilege and his desire for distinc.
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JSTOR
22573/ctt20m5gx1
Walt Whitman & the class struggle.
9780877459736
Walt Whtiman and the class struggle
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Political and social views.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Pensée politique et sociale.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Social classes in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Classes sociales dans la littérature.
Littérature et société-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.