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Author: Prof Kenneth M. Price (Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.30cm
Weight: 0.434kg
ISBN: 9780198840930
ISBN 10: 0198840934
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 12 November 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning of him and his work for the future. * Tyler Hoffman, American Literary History * Price works to untangle Whitman's complex, often contradictory, racial attitudes, showing through close readings and rich culture and aesthetic contextualization how his views of African Americans during slavery changed once emancipation occurred... The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning with him and his work for the future. * Tyler Hoffman, American Literary History * No other book has done so much to trace the contradictions inherent in the poet's work for the government and analyze the role it may have played in his poetry and politics. * Martin T. Buinicki, Valparaiso University * Written with clarity and impressively researched, this study offers a remarkable picture of a key period in Whitman's life. * J. W. Miller, CHOICE *
No other book has done so much to trace the contradictions inherent in the poet's work for the government and analyze the role it may have played in his poetry and politics. * Martin T. Buinicki, Valparaiso University * Written with clarity and impressively researched, this study offers a remarkable picture of a key period in Whitman's life. * J. W. Miller, CHOICE *
Written with clarity and impressively researched, this study offers a remarkable picture of a key period in Whitman's life. * J. W. Miller, CHOICE *
Price works to untangle Whitman's complex, often contradictory, racial attitudes, showing through close readings and rich culture and aesthetic contextualization how his views of African Americans during slavery changed once emancipation occurred... The virtue of Whitman in Washington is that it keeps tensions in place, and plumbs paradox, palpably wrestling with the legacy of Whitman in the moment and calling us to our own reckoning with him and his work for the future. * Tyler Hoffman, American Literary History * No other book has done so much to trace the contradictions inherent in the poet's work for the government and analyze the role it may have played in his poetry and politics. * Martin T. Buinicki, Valparaiso University * Written with clarity and impressively researched, this study offers a remarkable picture of a key period in Whitman's life. * J. W. Miller, CHOICE *
Author Information
Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990); To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004) and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.
