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Whitman possessed : poetry, sexuality, and popular authority / Mark Maslan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maslan, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Power (Social sciences) in literature.
- Male homosexuality in literature.
- Possessiveness in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Authority in literature.
- Gay men in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Poetics.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Views on sex.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Whitman aligned his poetry with an impartial authority hard to find elsewhere and inclined his work as a poet to speak for the voiceless, for the masses, and for an entire nation.
- Contents:
- Sexual hygiene: the natural gates and alleys of the body
- Ravishment and rapture
- Masses and muses
- Fictions of possession.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7646-X
- OCLC:
- 559166407
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