Cultural authority in the age of Whitman : a transatlantic perspective / [electronic resource]
Leypoldt, Günter,author.
This book deals with narratives of cultural legitimation in nineteenth-century US literature  in a transatlantic context.
Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: WHITMAN AND THE 'LAWLESS MUSIC' OF AMERICAN CULTURE; TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY US DISCOURSE; CHAPTER 1 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY INTELLECTUAL FIELD; CHAPTER 2 US DISCOURSE AND THE EXPRESSIVIST TURN; REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS; CHAPTER 3 THE POET AS ORPHIC SINGER: RALPH WALDO EMERSON; CHAPTER 4 WALT WHITMAN AND THE POETRY OF THE FUTURE; CONCEPTUAL FIELDS OF US CULTURE; CHAPTER 5 THE MUSIC OF AMERICA; Chapter 6 NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE SMELL OF THE WOODS; Chapter 7 THE DEMOCRATIC MUSE
INVENTING WHITMANIAN AUTHORITY  Chapter 8 CONTEMPORARY RECEPTION; Chapter 9 WHITMAN AMONG THE MODERNS; EPILOG: AFTER THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-288) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
This book deals with narratives of cultural legitimation in nineteenth-century US literature  in a transatlantic context.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
American poetry
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.