{"product_id":"walt-whitman-and-the-american-reader-hardback-9780521384698","title":"Walt Whitman and the American Reader (Hardback) 9780521384698","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWalt Whitman and the American Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEzra Greenspan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521384698, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 October 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.53 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\"Ezra Greenspan has brought together an abundance of information that he puts to good use in constructing a context for the emergence of Whitman from journeyman printer to journalist to poet....This is a fresh and comprehensive study.\"   Paul Kane, Journal of American History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary culture - a culture redefining its democratic identity. Against the context of the major changes revolutionising the professions of printer, publisher, bookseller and author, he examines the connection between the bookmaking culture of mid-century and Leaves of Grass, and between the conditions for authorship and Whitman's career. The result is a far-ranging study of Whitman as a model of the nineteenth-century American writer writing for - and sometimes reacting against - the newly enfranchised, expanded reading public of his time.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Whitman and the Conditions for Authorship in Nineteenth-century America: 1. Homage to the tenth muse\u003cbr\u003e 2. The evolution of American literary culture, 1820–50\u003cbr\u003e 3. Going forth into literary America\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'I am a writer, for the press and otherwise'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Whitman, Leaves of Grass and the Reader: 5. Intentions and ambitions\u003cbr\u003e 6. Whitman and the reader, 1855\u003cbr\u003e 7. The public response\u003cbr\u003e 8. Whitman and the reader, 1856\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Publish yourself of your own personality'\u003cbr\u003e 10. 1860: 'year of meteors'\u003cbr\u003e 11. Whitman and his readers through the century\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20plays%20\u0026amp;%20playwrights%20%5BDSG%5D%22\"\u003eDSG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007210443032,"sku":"9780521384698","price":72.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521384698_d29b173c-394f-4ca3-b679-b6fd33efd2cf.gif?v=1691376152","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/walt-whitman-and-the-american-reader-hardback-9780521384698","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}