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Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass
by Martin Klammer
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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 view of African Americans and of their significance to Whitman's vision of a multiracial, egalitarian society. While previous critics have described Whitman's puzzling, seemingly contradictory views on slavery, no other study has so thoroughly investigated Whitman and the question of slavery, nor understood the importance of slavery to Whitman's development as a poet.
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- Title
- Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass
- Author
- Martin Klammer
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0271024992
- ISBN 13
- 9780271024998
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- This edition first published
- December 31, 2004
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...