Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Revised Lives: Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture

1st Edition

By William Pannapacker
October 30, 2003

Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the ...