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Author Herrero-Brasas, Juan A.

Title Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship : homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity / Juan A. Herrero Brasas.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise -- The building of a reputation -- Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions -- The character of Whitman's religion -- The creed -- The mystic hypothesis -- The strong hypothesis -- The weak hypothesis -- The denial of the hypothesis -- A gospel of beauty -- The classical roots of aestheticism -- Whitman and the platonic tradition -- From phrenology to aesthetic morality -- Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision -- Whitman and Nietzsche -- Whitman and Oscar Wilde -- The love of comrades -- A messianic mission -- The nature of comradeship -- Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality -- Mystical interpretations of comradeship -- Ethical aspects of comradeship -- Religious aspects of comradeship -- Social and political aspects of comradeship -- Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love -- Whitman, the moral reformer -- Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern -- The character of Whitman's new morality -- An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory -- Whitman's attitude to war -- Robert K. Martin's theory : "fucked by the earth" -- David Keubrich's theory : post-Christian millennialism -- Reynolds's theory : "immoral didacticism" -- A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory -- An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth -- A queer (theory) postscript -- A queer (theory) twist : no new species -- Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy -- Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.
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Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Relations with men.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Relations with men.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Friends and associates.
Friends and associates.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Ethics.
Ethics.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Relations with men -- Friends and associates -- Ethics.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Poets, American.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
Gay men.
United States.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gay men.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Herrero-Brasas, Juan A. Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010 9781438430119 (DLC) 2009021078 (OCoLC)367420709
ISBN 9781441648686 (electronic book)
1441648682 (electronic book)
1438430124
9781438430126
1438430116 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781438430119 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781438430126