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Documenting Walt Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850s, the decade of his most creative period, this book reveals connections between the first three editions of ""Leaves of Grass"" and the texts generated by the women he knew during this period, including many radical activists.
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"Leaves of Grass is essentially a woman's book: the women do not know it, but every now and then a woman shows that she knows it: it speaks out the necessities, its cry is the cry of the right and wrong of the woman sex- of the woman first of all, of the facts of creation first of all- of the feminine: speaks out loud: warns, encourages, persuades, points the way."--Walt Whitman
"Ceniza has written the premier study of Whitman and the culture of 19th-century feminism."--Ezra Greenspan, University of South Carolina
"Ceniza's study provides the fullest account yet of Whitman's relation to the American feminists of midcentury. . . . Ceniza's book deals with . . . questions from a feminist position that clearly admires Whitman profoundly. She has made excellent use of archival material, uncovering a wealth of private or little-known comments on Whitman's work by leading American feminists of the mid-nineteenth century. Ultimately a study in social history, Ceniza's work will enable a significant reappraisal of Whitman and 'the woman question.'"
--American Literature
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"Ceniza has written the premier study of Whitman and the culture of 19th-century feminism."--Ezra Greenspan, University of South Carolina
"Ceniza's study provides the fullest account yet of Whitman's relation to the American feminists of midcentury. . . . Ceniza's book deals with . . . questions from a feminist position that clearly admires Whitman profoundly. She has made excellent use of archival material, uncovering a wealth of private or little-known comments on Whitman's work by leading American feminists of the mid-nineteenth century. Ultimately a study in social history, Ceniza's work will enable a significant reappraisal of Whitman and 'the woman question.'"
--American Literature
Sherry Ceniza is Associate Professor of English at Texas Tech University.
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- PublisherThe University of Alabama Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0817308938
- ISBN 13 9780817308933
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages296
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WALT WHITMAN AND 19TH-CENTURY WOMEN REFORMERS
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. xiv + 291 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. B&W illustrations throughout text. "(A)rgues that Whitman's editions of 'Leaves' became progressively more radically 'feminist' as he followed the women's rights movement during the 1850s.". Seller Inventory # 01480
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Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's blue pictorial dust-jacket. 291 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with several vignette half-toned photographs. No publishing history on copyright page, presumed first, albeit unclipped dust-jacket lacks price. Makes the argument that the nascent feminist movement, both official and collateral, influenced successive editions of Leaves of Grass and served to radicalize Whitman's thinking regarding Woman's rights. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and unmarked copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. Seller Inventory # 020553
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