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Song of ourselves : Walt Whitman and the fight for democracy

Mark Edmundson (Author)
"Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as "feudal"-obsessed with the noble and great-Whitman created a story of commonplace egalitarian selfhood, a story he lived as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher

eBook, English, 2021
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2021