Walt Whitman and the Civil War

America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862

Ted Genoways

• Editorial: University of California Press
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520943087
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Littérature
• Categoría: Critique littéraire nord-américaine

Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as evidence of Whitman's indifference to the Civil War during its critical early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years—locating Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways's account fills a major gap in Whitman's biography and debunks the myth that Whitman was unaffected by the country's march to war. Instead, Walt Whitman and the Civil War reveals the poet's active participation in the early Civil War period and elucidates his shock at the horrors of war months before his legendary journey to Fredericksburg, correcting in part the poet's famous assertion that the "real war will never get in the books." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2009.
Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later. Past critics have te

Índice

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION Quicksand Years
• CHAPTER ONE The Red-Hot Fellows of Those Times
• CHAPTER TWO The Representative Man of the North
• CHAPTER THREE The Volcanic Upheaval of the Nation
• CHAPTER FOUR War-Suggesting Trumpets, I Heard You
• CHAPTER FIVE Dead and Divine, and Brother of Ali
• Conclusion
• ABBREVIATIONS
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX