Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

by David Haven Blake

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What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity.
Making use of notebooks, photographs,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300217137

ISBN13:9780300217131

Release Date:May 2015

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Arts & Literature Authors Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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