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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Haven Blake situates Walt Whitman in an expanse of nineteenth-century American popular culture that stretches from patent medicines to presidential politics, revealing the poet's complicated, often inconsistent views on poetry, commerce, and celebrity. Like his contemporary P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman understood that, in the emergent culture of celebrity, fame was less a fact than a performance. He drew on the rhetoric of advertising not just...
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