Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First "Leaves of Grass", 1840-1855

by Jason Stacy

In the fifteen years before the publication of Leaves of Grass (1855), Walt Whitman constructed three authoritative voices by which he engaged the upheavals endemic to the Industrial Revolution. Through these public personas, found mostly in his journalism, Whitman offered remedies for American artisans who had lost their economic autonomy and status. Instead of attacking broad forces beyond worker control, Whitman blamed artisans for oppressing themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143310153X
• ISBN13: 9781433101533
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"