Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass

by Michael Moon

Book Overview

Within twelve years of the first appearance of Leaves of Grass in 1855, Walt Whitman produced three other editions of what he insisted were the "same" work; two more followed later in his life. Rather than asking which of these editions is best, Michael Moon, in Disseminating Whitman, argues that the very existence of distinct versions of the text raises essential questions about it. Interpreting "revision" more profoundly than earlier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674212452
• ISBN13: 9780674212459
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"