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First Published in 2005. Whitman's Ecstatic Union rereads the first three editions of Leaves of Grass within the context of a nineteenth-century antebellum evangelical culture of conversion. Though Whitman intended to write a new American Bible and inaugurate a religion, contemporary scholarship has often ignored the religious element in his poetry. But just as evangelists sought the redemption of America through the reconstruction of individual subjects in conversion, Leaves of Grass sought to

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Author

Sowder, Michael;

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415867160

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Updated

2026-03-25