An Walt Whitman, Amerika

Author/Contributor(s):	Price, Kenneth M
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	03/29/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this analysis of the development of Walt Whitman as an American icon, Price examines Whitman's own writings as well as some of the writers and artists who were influenced by him, paying particular attention to Whitman's legacies for an ethnically and sexually diverse America. Includes discussion of fiction writers Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster, Ishmael Reed, Gloria Naylor, and others.