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Authors

Matt Cohen

Abstract

Explores Whitman's negotiation of bachelorhood, examining how and why the poet avoided the word "bachelor" and its idea in print, yet embraced it in his persona; argues that Whitman's relation to bachelorhood "demonstrates the complexity we face in restructuring concepts like 'bachelorhood' from our own times, when the word has lost most of its resonance."

Rights

Copyright © 1999 by The University of Iowa.

Season

Winter



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