Whitman's Drama of Consensus

by Kerry Larson

Book Overview

In this elegant study, Walt Whitman's democratic, consensual idealism emerges for the first time as truly central to his poetic achievement. Though Whitman's democratic idealism has often been dismissed as a blindness to the political complexities of his day, Kerry C. Larson argues that the poet was in fact vitally engaged in the problems of preserving social continuity at a time (1855-60) when the specter of disunion and fractricidal war grew increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226469085
• ISBN13: 9780226469089
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"