{"product_id":"franklin-evans-or-the-inebriate-a-tale-of-the-times-paperback-softback-9780822339427","title":"Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate; A Tale of the Times (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822339427","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFranklin Evans, or the Inebriate\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Tale of the Times\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWalt Whitman (Author), Christopher Castiglia (Edited by), Glenn Hendler (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822339427\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 July 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 3 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.2 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.299 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler provide a truly state-of-the-art introduction to Walt Whitman’s only novel, a lively and thorough account of the varied contexts that best illuminate the significance of Whitman’s rough and rowdy tale.”-Michael Moon, author of\u003ci\u003e Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in \u003c\/i\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Readers interested primarily in the social history of the country will find much here that is compelling. The temperance movement was the first wide-spread social reform movement in the United States, and the novel’s greatest claim to interest from a wider readership comes from what it reveals about that movement. . . . [T]here are also glimpses of the young poet’s developing voice. The novel reveals a belief in the power of words to change the lives and influence the actions of individual readers, most of whom would have come from the working class. Joined with more original language, this conviction would give \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, written a decade later, its passion and force.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Kim Roberts (White Crane Journal)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNot many people know that Walt Whitman-arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century-began his literary career as a novelist. \u003ci\u003eFranklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times\u003c\/i\u003e was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman’s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies.\u003cp\u003eThe novel tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theaters, and above all taverns, he gradually becomes a drunkard. Until the very end of the tale, Evans’s efforts to abstain fail, and each time he resumes drinking, another series of misadventures ensues. Along the way, Evans encounters a world of mores and conventions rapidly changing in response to the vicissitudes of slavery, investment capital, urban mass culture, and fervent reform. Although Evans finally signs a temperance pledge, his sobriety remains haunted by the often contradictory and unsettling changes in antebellum American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editors’ substantial introduction situates \u003ci\u003eFranklin Evans\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to Whitman’s life and career, mid-nineteenth-century American print culture, and many of the developments and institutions the novel depicts, including urbanization, immigration, slavery, the temperance movement, and new understandings of class, race, gender, and sexuality. This edition includes a short temperance story Whitman published at about the same time as he did \u003ci\u003eFranklin Evans\u003c\/i\u003e, the surviving fragment of what appears to be another unfinished temperance novel by Whitman, and a temperance speech Abraham Lincoln gave the same year that \u003ci\u003eFranklin Evans\u003c\/i\u003e was published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction ix\u003cbr\u003e I. Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate \u003cbr\u003e A Tale of the Times 1\u003cbr\u003e II. Supplementary Texts \u003cbr\u003e The Madman 117\u003cbr\u003e The Child and the Profligate 123\u003cbr\u003e An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society, at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois, On the 22nd Day of February, 1842 135\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 145\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574569595160,"sku":"9780822339427","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/franklin-evans-or-the-inebriate-a-tale-of-the-times-paperback-softback-9780822339427","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}