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Authors

Michael Sowder

Abstract

Argues that an inadequately investigated feature of Whitman's poetry is the "preacherly performance" his work enacts in an effort to convert the reader into being reborn into "Whitman's image of a new American personality" and thus "redeem the nation."

Rights

Copyright © 1999 by The University of Iowa.

Season

Winter



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