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Whitman the Political Poet - Erkkila, Betsy
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This is the first study to undertake a detailed analysis of Whitman's entire work in relation to the political struggles of the 19th century. Erkkila explores the ways in which the politics of race, class, gender, capital, technology, Western expansion, and war enter into the poetic design of "Leaves of Grass"; the relation between Whitman's (homo)sexual body and the body politic of his poems; and the ways in which the Civil War and its aftermath affected Whitman's artistic ordering and reordering of his work.

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Whitman the Political Poet 1996, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195113808

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Whitman the Political Poet 1989, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195054385

Hardcover