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New. Although the significance of Walt Whitman's thinking about African Americans and slavery to his poetry has been largely ignored by Whitman scholars, Martin Klammer argues that Leaves of Grass is a major text dealing with race relations in the mid-nineteenth century. Through a close historical analysis, Klammer reveals how the evolution of Whitman's attitudes-from pro-slavery to "Free Soilism" to a deep sympathy for slaves-parallels and inspires his emergence as a poet from the beginning of his career through the 1855 edition. The issue of slavery continually influenced Whitman's work, culminating in 1854 when public reaction to two national developments on the slavery question-the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the case of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns-suddenly created an audience more receptive to Whitman's views and compelled him to revise and publish the poems known as Leaves of Grass. At the heart of these poems is a radically new and sympathetic…
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Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass Paperback - 1997
by Martin Klammer
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- Title Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass
- Author Martin Klammer
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penn State University Press
- Date 1997-04-15
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780271024998 / 0271024992
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.44 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.12 cm)
- Reading level 1580
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States, History
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.3
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