Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman: A Transatlantic Perspective

by James Andrew Taylor and Günter Leypoldt

Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman deals with narratives of cultural legitimation in nineteenth-century US literature, in a transatlantic context. Exploring how literary professionalism shapes romantic and modern cultural space, Leypoldt traces the nineteenth-century fusion of poetic radicalism with cultural nationalism from its beginnings in transatlantic early romanticism, to the poetry and poetics of Walt Whitman, and Whitman's modernist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748635742
• ISBN13: 9780748635740
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher