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The erotic Whitman
- Author
- Pollak, Vivian R.
- Title
- The erotic Whitman / Vivian R. Pollak.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2000 ©2000
- Description
- xxiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Summary
- Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to Walt Whitman's imagination of masculinity in crisis. She maintains tha tin representing himself as a charactierstic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, the poet was trying to temper his own inner confilcts as well. Integrating biography and criticism, Pollak employs a loosely chronological organization to descirbe teh poet's multifaceted "faith in sex." Drawing on his early fiction, jounalism, letters, and notebook entries, she shows how in spite of his personal ambivalence about sustained erotic intimacy, Whitman came to imagine himself as "the phallic choice of America." -- from back cover.
- Kinsey subjects
- Biographies of homosexuals. Homosexual writers.
- ISBN
- 9780520221901