| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise -- The building of a reputation -- Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions -- The character of Whitman's religion -- The creed -- The mystic hypothesis -- The strong hypothesis -- The weak hypothesis -- The denial of the hypothesis -- A gospel of beauty -- The classical roots of aestheticism -- Whitman and the platonic tradition -- From phrenology to aesthetic morality -- Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision -- Whitman and Nietzsche -- Whitman and Oscar Wilde -- The love of comrades -- A messianic mission -- The nature of comradeship -- Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality -- Mystical interpretations of comradeship -- Ethical aspects of comradeship -- Religious aspects of comradeship -- Social and political aspects of comradeship -- Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love -- Whitman, the moral reformer -- Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern -- The character of Whitman's new morality -- An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory -- Whitman's attitude to war -- Robert K. Martin's theory : "fucked by the earth" -- David Keubrich's theory : post-Christian millennialism -- Reynolds's theory : "immoral didacticism" -- A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory -- An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth -- A queer (theory) postscript -- A queer (theory) twist : no new species -- Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy -- Queer (theory) confusion and its uses. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Relations with men.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Friends and associates.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Ethics.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Relations with men -- Friends and associates -- Ethics.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. (OCoLC)fst00039575
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Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Herrero-Brasas, Juan A. Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010 9781438430119 (DLC) 2009021078 (OCoLC)367420709 |
| ISBN |
9781441648686 (electronic bk.) |
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1441648682 (electronic bk.) |
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