WWQR > Vol. 24 (2006) > No. 1
Article Title
From Language to Empire: Walt Whitman in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Popular Anglo-Saxonism
Abstract
Examines Whitman's relationship to nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonism (as seen in such periodicals as The Anglo-Saxon) and proposes that "his vocabulary of Anglo-Saxonism problematizes his call for equality and universality," producing tensions in his work--"his changing focus from language to racial superiority and then to the postbellum negation of that superiority demonstrates the complexity of Whitman's politics"-and leading him after 1860 to employ "both new vocabulary and new ideas which actively contradict the familiar strains of Anglo-Saxonism."
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Copyright © 2006 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Kim, Heidi Kathleen. "From Language to Empire: Walt Whitman in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Popular Anglo-Saxonism." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 24 (Summer 2006), 1-19.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol24/iss1/2
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Summer
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