Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”

This article analyzes 19th-century US poet Walt Whitman’s vindication of “adhesiveness” as imperative to the formation of a social democracy which might heal the neighborly hatreds of a divided United States and bind the nation together at a time of violent fragmentation and Civil War. The article e...

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Main Author: Laura López Peña
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2014-10-01
Series:Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat
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Online Access:http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/10722