The Erotic WhitmanUniversity of California Press, 4 авг. 2000 г. - Всего страниц: 285 In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, Whitman was trying to temper his own inner conflicts as well. The poet's expansive vision of natural eroticism and of unfettered comradeship between democratic equals was, however, only part of the story. As Whitman waged a conscious campaign to challenge misogynistic and homophobic literary codes, he promoted a raceless, classless ideal of sexual democracy that theoretically equalized all varieties of desire and resisted none. Pollak suggests that this goal remains imperfectly achieved in his writings, which liberates some forbidden voices and silences others. Integrating biography and criticism, Pollak employs a loosely chronological organization to describe the poet's multifaceted "faith in sex." Drawing on his early fiction, journalism, poetry, and self-reviews, as well as letters and notebook entries, she shows how in spite of his personal ambivalence about sustained erotic intimacy, Whitman came to imagine himself as "the phallic choice of America." |
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The Erotics of Youth | 1 |
Family Faces | 3 |
Boarding at the Brentons | 24 |
A First Friendship | 30 |
Why Whirman Gave Up Fiction | 37 |
Interleaf From Walter to Walt | 56 |
Fairh in Sex Leaves of Grass in 185556 | 81 |
TwentyEight Young Men | 82 |
The TwentyNinth Bather | 114 |
The Politics of Love in the 1860 Leaves of Grass | 122 |
Enfans dAdam | 129 |
Calamus | 136 |
Whitman Unperturbed The Civil War and After | 153 |
In Loftiest Spheres Whitmans Visionary Feminism | 172 |
Notes | 195 |
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