American Bards

Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet

Edward Whitley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2010 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3421-3 (ISBN)

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While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman's contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield, an African American separatist and abolitionist; Eliza R. Snow, a Mormon pioneer and women's leader; and John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and Native-rights advocate. These poets not only provide a counterpoint to the Whitmanian persona of the outsider bard, but they also reframe the criteria by which generations of scholars have characterized Whitman as America's poet.

Edward Whitley is assistant professor of English and director of American studies at Lehigh University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2010
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8078-3421-1 / 0807834211
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-3421-3 / 9780807834213
Zustand	Neuware