Publication

1991 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

62,250 words, Guess

Page Count

249 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing593814
  • Goodreads2014132

Classifications

  • DDC811/.3
  • LCCPS3238 .M66 1991

Description

Summary:"Within twelve years of the first appearance of Leaves of Grass in 1855, Walt Whitman produced three other editions. Michael Moon, interpreting "revision" more profoundly than earlier Whitman critics have done, while treating the poet's homosexuality as a cultural and political as well as a biographical fact, shows how Whitman's continual modifications of his work intersect with the representations of male-male desire throughout his writing. What is subjected to endless revision throughout the first four editions of Leaves of Grass is a historically specific set of principles governing how the human body was conceptualized and controlled in mid-ninteenth century America

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Other Editions

  • Disseminating Whitman: revision and corporeality in Leaves of grassHarvard University Press1991-01-01

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