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Author : Jedediah Purdy,Anthony T. Kronman,Cynthia Farrar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300130485

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Democratic Vistas by Jedediah Purdy,Anthony T. Kronman,Cynthia Farrar Pdf

In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience—free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments, and its contradictions. Based on DeVane lectures delivered at Yale University, these writings examine large themes and ask important questions: Why do democratic societies, and the United States in particular, tolerate profound economic inequality? Has the United States ever been truly democratic? How has democratic aspiration influenced the development of practices as diverse as education, religious worship, and family life? With deep insights and lively discussion, the authors expand our understanding of what democracy has meant in the past, how it functions now, and what its course may be in the future.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587299230

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Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman Pdf

"Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts, this searing analysis of American culture offers readers today the opportunity to argue with Whitman over the nature of democracy and the future of the nation." --Book Jacket.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0023255073

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Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385506138

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Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India by Walt Whitman Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006057983

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Walt Whitman by Joel Myerson Pdf

Myerson's massive bibliography documents the numerous editions, reprintings, and rearrangements of Whitman's lifetime project--the singularly important Leaves of Grass--as well as miscellaneous pieces: individually published poems, magazine and newspaper articles, broadsides, circulars, advertisements, and other prose works. Thoroughly illustrated (title pages, bindings, etc.), the volume also includes an index showing the publication history of the poems in Leaves of Grass and a bibliography of the principal works about Whitman. The clearest explication of this intricate publishing history yet accomplished. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jessica DeSpain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317087243

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Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book by Jessica DeSpain Pdf

Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested. Focusing on four influential works”Charles Dickens's American Notes for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas”DeSpain shows that for authors, readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the textual body, the physical book and the physical body became interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual identity, personal property, and national identity.

Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004288281

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Democratic Vistas: 1860-1880 by Alan Trachtenberg Pdf

Author : James Perrin Warren
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271073026

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Walt Whitman's Language Experiment by James Perrin Warren Pdf

Combining intellectual history with literary analysis, this study of Whitman's language experiment from 1855 to 1892 offers a refreshing new look at his theory of language especially the English language in America—as an expression of a "national spirit" and relates that theory to the language and style of Whitman's major poems and essays. Whitman viewed American English as the most expressive, poetic language that ever existed, and he used his studies of historical linguistics to corroborate that view. Part 1 explicates the theory of language that Whitman developed in his linguistic notebooks, unpublished manuscripts, fugitive essays, and two chapters of the popular book Rambles Among Words. The diction and syntax of the 1855–1856 editions of Leaves of Grass are analyzed to show how Whitman's overwhelming interest in language theories resulted in the "language experiment" of the poems. Part 2 examines the ways in which Whitman's view of language as an expression of the constantly evolving spirit of America subtly shifted to a more cumulative, backward-looking vision of linguistic and spiritual change. Analysis of the diction, syntax, and organization of the last four editions of Leaves of Grass reveals how this shift in vision affected the style of Whitman's poetry and prose from 1860 to 1892. Whitman's groundbreaking poetic style, the author concludes, was a direct consequence of his view of language and the human spirit as dynamic, progressivist, and actively changing within a temporal world. Conversely, Whitman's experiments in both prose and poetry helped confirm his view of linguistic and spiritual evolution.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015011575258

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Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and Other Prose by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382117054

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Leaves of Grass by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Francis Edmund Anstie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Alcohol
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010419018

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On the Uses of Wines in Health and Disease by Francis Edmund Anstie Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXUWH2

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Traveler's Guide to the City of New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Schiller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382169268

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Hand-Book of Progressive Philosophy by Edward Schiller Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382100148

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Bancroft's Tourist's Guide Yosemite by Anonymous Pdf

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Author : A. L. Bancroft
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382134952

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Bancroft's Tourist's Guide by A. L. Bancroft Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.