Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

by Ed Folsom

In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman's poetry and prose continue to be meaningful at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Covering a broad range of issues--from ecology to children's literature, gay identity to China's May 4th Movement, nineteenth-century New York politics to the emerging field of normality studies, Mao Zedong to American film--each original essay opens a previously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877458219
• ISBN13: 9780877458210
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 8.8"