Walt Whitman and 19th-century women reformers
by Sherry Ceniza
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Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture. Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850's, the decade of Whitman's most creative period. The book reveals startling connections between the first three editions of Leaves of Grass and the texts generated by the women he knew during this period, many of whom were radical activists in the women's rights movement.Sherry show more Ceniza argues that Whitman's editions of Leaves became progre show lessTags
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Sherry Ceniza is retired from the Department of English at Texas Tech University.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
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- 811.3 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry in English Middle 19th century 1830–1861
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- PS3242 .W6 .C46 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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