Kirsten Harris

Walt Whitman and British Socialism

�the Love of Comrades�

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman's reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She calls attention to Whitman's own demand for the reader to 'himself or herself construct indeed

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367870515
• ISBN-10: 0367870517
• Artikelnr.: 58482099

Autorenporträt

Kristen Harris is currently Senior Tutor in the School of Modern Languages at Bristol and has previously lectured in English Literature at the University of Nottingham and taught at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Towards an Evolutionary Aesthetic: Edward Carpenter's
Democracy 2. Permeating Socialism: James William Wallace and the Bolton
Whitmanites 3. Whitman at Work in the Socialist Press 4. William Clarke's
Walt Whitman: A Socialist Exposition 5. "Have the Elder Races Halted?":
Uses of Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Coda