The Pragmatic Whitman: Reimagining American Democracy

, by Mack, Stephen John

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ISBN: 9780877458227 | 0877458227
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/2002

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Stephen Mack currently teaches advanced writing at the University of Southern California.

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Introduction: The Evolution of Whitman's Democratic Vision

PART I The Metaphysics of Democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855 and 1856

(74)

``My Voice Goes after What My Eyes Cannot Reach'': Pragmatic Language and the Making of a Democratic Mythology

(20)

``What Is Less or More Than a Touch?'': Sensory Experience and the Democratic Self

(15)

``The Simple, Compact Well-Join'd Scheme'': Whitman's Democratic Cosmos

(22)

``Not Chaos or Death . . . . It Is Form and Union and Plan'': Laissez-faire and the Problem of Agency

(15)

PART II Crises and ReVisions: ``Sea-Drift,'' ``Calamus,'' Drum-Taps, and Sequel to Drum-Taps, 1859-1867

(58)

``The Most Perfect Pilot'': The Problem of Desire and the Struggle for Poetic Agency

(23)

``To Learn from the Crises of Anguish'': Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning

100

(33)

PART III Prophet of Democracy: Democratic Vistas, 1871

133

(27)

``The Divine Literatus Comes'': Religion and Poetry in the Cultivation of Democratic Selfhood

135

(25)

Conclusion: Toward an Organic Democracy

160

(7)

Notes

167

(8)

Bibliography

175

(4)

Index

179

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The Pragmatic Whitman: Reimagining American Democracy

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