Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship
Subtitle: homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity
By: Juan A. Herrero Brasas.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438430119
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Relations with men; Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Friends and associates; Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Ethics; Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Gay men -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise"; title: The building of a reputation; title: Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparition; title: The character of Whitman's religion; title: The creed; title: "The mystic hypothesis"; title: The strong hypothesis; title: The weak hypothesis; title: The denial of the hypothesis; title: "A gospel of beauty"; title: The classical roots of aestheticism"; title: Whitman and the platonic tradition; title: From phrenology to aesthetic morality; title: Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the kosmic vision; title: Whitman and Nietzsche; title: Whitman and Oscar Wilde; title: "The love of comrades"; title: A messianic mission; title: The nature of comradeship; title: Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality; title: Mystical interpretations of homosexuality; title: Ethical aspects of comradeship; title: Religious aspects of comradeship; title: Social and political aspects of comradeship; title: Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love; title: "Whitman, the moral reformer"; title: Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern; title: The character of Whitman's new morality; title: An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory; title: Whitman's attitude to war; title: Robert K. Martin : "fucked by the earth"; title: David Keubrich's theory : post Christian millennialism; title: Reynolds's theory : immoral didacticism; title: A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory; title: An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth; title: A queer (theory); title: A queer (theory) twist; title: Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy; title: Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.