num_pages: 274
description: “This is the most illuminating study ever written about how an American writer has been absorbed into another culture. This book is a major achievement not only in Whitman studies but in the emerging field of intercultural textuality.”—Ed FolsomIn this first comprehensive study in English of Walt Whitman's reception in the German-speaking countries, Walter Grünzweig posits a very broadly based notion of culture, embodying a wide variety of elements such as high literature, politics, youth movements, sexuality, and other subcultures.
language: English
title: Constructing the German Walt Whitman
titlecomplete: Constructing the German Walt Whitman
publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr