Genoways, Ted
by Walt Whitman and the Civil War
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- ISBN 13
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Berkeley. 2009. September 2009. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520259065. 11 b/w photographs. 224 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literary Studies Civil War Walt Whitman History Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as evidence of Whitman's indifference to the Civil War during its critical early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years - locating Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways's account fills a major gap in Whitman's biography and debunks the myth that Whitman was unaffected by the country's march to war. Instead, Walt Whitman and the Civil War reveals the poet's active participation in the early Civil War period and elucidates his shock at the horrors of war months before his legendary journey to Fredericksburg, correcting in part the poet's famous assertion that the real war will never get in the books.' inventory #37476 ISBN: 9780520259065.
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- Title
- Genoways, Ted
- Author
- Walt Whitman and the Civil War
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0520259068
- ISBN 13
- 9780520259065
- Publisher
- University Of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- This edition first published
- 2009-09
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