The Resource Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy, Mark Edmundson
Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy, Mark Edmundson
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The item Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy, Mark Edmundson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library.
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- Summary
- Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 217 pages
- Contents
-
- Part I: Song of ourselves: I celebrate myself
- Undisguised and naked
- The marriage of self and soul
- The grass
- All in
- A vision of democracy
- These states
- Songs of triumph
- Poet of the body
- The sun
- The generative god
- The animals
- Walt becomes other
- A massacre
- A sea fight
- American Jesus
- Walt and the priests
- Walt's god
- Walt and the reader
- Death and democracy
- Part II. In the hospitals: Publication
- In Washington
- Letters home
- Tom Sawyer
- The vision completed
- Part III. Song of myself (1855)
- Isbn
- 9780674237162
- Label
- Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy
- Title
- Song of ourselves
- Title remainder
- Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Edmundson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War
- Cataloging source
- MH/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Edmundson, Mark
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Whitman, Walt
- Democracy in literature
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy, Mark Edmundson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Part I: Song of ourselves: I celebrate myself -- Undisguised and naked -- The marriage of self and soul -- The grass -- All in -- A vision of democracy -- These states -- Songs of triumph -- Poet of the body -- The sun -- The generative god -- The animals -- Walt becomes other -- A massacre -- A sea fight -- American Jesus -- Walt and the priests -- Walt's god -- Walt and the reader -- Death and democracy -- Part II. In the hospitals: Publication -- In Washington -- Letters home -- Tom Sawyer -- The vision completed -- Part III. Song of myself (1855)
- Control code
- on1198018656
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 217 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674237162
- Lccn
- 2020039198
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy, Mark Edmundson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Part I: Song of ourselves: I celebrate myself -- Undisguised and naked -- The marriage of self and soul -- The grass -- All in -- A vision of democracy -- These states -- Songs of triumph -- Poet of the body -- The sun -- The generative god -- The animals -- Walt becomes other -- A massacre -- A sea fight -- American Jesus -- Walt and the priests -- Walt's god -- Walt and the reader -- Death and democracy -- Part II. In the hospitals: Publication -- In Washington -- Letters home -- Tom Sawyer -- The vision completed -- Part III. Song of myself (1855)
- Control code
- on1198018656
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 217 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674237162
- Lccn
- 2020039198
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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