| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Iowa Whitman series
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Iowa Whitman series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
To reach the workmen direct -- The good gray market -- Transmitting the untranslatable -- Whitman in unexpected places -- Over the roofs of the world. |
| Summary |
The American ninteenth century witnessed a media explosion unprecedented in human history, and Walt Whitman's poetry reveled in the potentials of his time: "See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press," he wrote. "See, the electric telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from the Western Sea to Manhattan." Still, as the budding poet learned, books neither sell themselves nor move themselves: without an efficient set of connections to get books to readers, the democratic, media-saturated future that Whitman imagined would have remained warehoused. Whitman's works sometimes ran through the "many-cylinder'd steam printing-press" and were carried in bulk on "the strong and quick locomotive." Yet during his career, his publications did not follow a progressive path toward mass production and distribution. Whitman's Drift asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read. Studying nineteenth-century literature and how it circulated can help us understand not just how to read Whitman's works and times, but how to understand what is happening to our imaginations now, in the midst of the twenty-first century media explosion.--Publisher description |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. |
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Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature publishing. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
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Poetry -- Publishing. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. |
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Authors and publishers. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohen, Matt, 1970- Whitman's drift 9781609384760 (DLC) 2016040301 (OCoLC)957655712 |
| ISBN |
9781609384777 (electronic book) |
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1609384776 (electronic book) |
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9781609384760 |
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1609384768 |
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