1st Edition
Whitman's Ecstatic Union Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass
By Michael Sowder
Copyright 2005
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Whitman's Ecstatic Union rereads the first three editions of Leaves of Grass within the context of a nineteenth-century antebellum evangelical culture of conversion. Though Whitman intended to write a new American Bible and "inaugurate a religion," contemporary scholarship has often ignored the religious element in his poetry. But just as evangelists sought the redemption of America through the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Out of the Antebellum Culture of Conversion; Chapter 2 Negation, Theophany, Ecstasy; Chapter 3 Welcome; Chapter 4 Love’s Apocalypse; con Conclusion;
Biography
Michael Sowder
