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Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity by Blake, David Haven. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity about?
What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, the author provides a history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity. Making use of notebooks, photographs, and archival sources, David Haven Blake provides a groundbreaking history of the rise of celebrity culture in the United States. He sees Leaves of Grass alongside the birth of commercial advertising and the nation's growing obsession with the lives of the famous and the renowned. As authors, lecturers, politicians, entertainers, and clergymen vied for popularity, Whitman developed a form of poetry that routinely promoted and, indeed, celebrated itself. Walt Whitman an
Who reads Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Blake, David Haven.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300110173
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography