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Author Maslan, Mark.

Title Whitman possessed : poetry, sexuality, and popular authority / Mark Maslan.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-213) and index.
Contents Sexual hygiene: the natural gates and alleys of the body -- Ravishment and rapture -- Masses and muses -- Fictions of possession.
Summary This is a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. The author reads his works in relation to 19th-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration and political representation.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Political and social views.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Political and social views.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Et la sexualité.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Pensée politique et sociale.
Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Homosexuality and literature.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Male homosexuality in literature.
Male homosexuality in literature.
Possessiveness in literature.
Possessiveness in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Authority in literature.
Authority in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Self in literature.
Self in literature.
Sex in literature.
Sex in literature.
Poetics.
Poetics.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Maslan, Mark. Whitman possessed. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 0801867010 (DLC) 00011756 (OCoLC)45137450
ISBN 080187646X (electronic book)
9780801876462 (electronic book)
0801867010 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780801867019 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)