By reconsidering Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American diversity but as a historically specific poet with roots in the antebellum lower middle class,

This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, re

In the fifteen years before the publication of Leaves of Grass (1855), Walt Whitman constructed three authoritative voices by which he engaged the upheavals end

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reactio

"This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, r