Walt Whitman And The Culture Of American Celebrity
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Walt Whitman And The Culture Of American Celebrity

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What is the relationship between poetry and fame?   What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity?  Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype?  One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's ...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published November 1st 2006 by Yale University Press
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