Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ceniza, Sherry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892--Friends and associates.

Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892--Political and social views.

Women's rights in literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Feminism--United States--History--19th century.

Feminism.

Women social reformers--United States.

Women social reformers.

Social change in literature.

Radicalism in literature.

Women in literature.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Political and social views.

Whitman, Walt.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Friends and associates.

Local Subjects:

Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892--Friends and associates.

Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892--Political and social views.

Women's rights in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture. Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850's, the decade of Whitman's most creative period. The book reveals startling connections between the first three editions of Leaves of Grass and the texts generated by the women he knew during this period, many of whom were radical activists in the women's rights movement.Sherry Ceniza argues that Whitman's editions of Leaves became progre

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Louisa Van Velsor Whitman; 2. Abby Hills Price; 3. Paulina Wright Davis; 4. Ernestine L. Rose; 5. Responses of Some 19th-Century Women to the 1860 Leaves of Grass; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8726-9