Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

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Publisher's Synopsis

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, the author provides a history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States.

Book information

ISBN: 9780300134810
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.3
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 251
Weight: -1g