University of Iowa Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-87745-498-4 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-004-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3238.W356 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.3
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ed Folsom is Roy J. Carver Professor of English and editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review at the University of Iowa. Coeditor of the Walt Whitman Archive, he is the author ofWalt Whitman's Native Representations, coeditor of Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa, 1995), and editor of Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (Iowa, 1994), among many other publications.
The late Gay Wilson Allen was emeritus professor of English at New York University, the author of biographies of Walt Whitman, William James, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the general editor of The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman.
REVIEWS
“A simply splendid collection of responses to Whitman's poetry in a great diversity of voices, forms, and nationalities. The spirit of the performance is—what else?—Whitmanian, grandly and lovingly executed.”—Nineteenth-Century Literature
“An extraordinary book in both ambition and execution, edited by two of the most distinguished Whitman scholars representing the older and younger generations. The book shows the American poet of self and democracy, some 150 years after he launched his spiritual journey, still sauntering down that open road.”—James E. Miller, Jr., University of Chicago
“This book brings together the best critics and the most representative views of Whitman from around the globe. Its internationality reflects the poet's own grand ideas about democracy and diversity.”—Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents:
Introduction: "Salut au Monde!" 1
Whitman and the British Isles 11
Whitman in Spain and Latin America 71
Whitman in Brazil 128
Whitman in Portugal 147
Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries 160
Whitman in the Netherlands 231
Whitman in France and Belgium 233
Whitman in Italy 268
Whitman in the Former Yugoslavia 282
Whitman in Poland 295
Whitman in Russia 300
Whitman in Sweden 339
Whitman in Denmark and Norway 357
Whitman in Finland 381
Whitman in Israel 386
Whitman in India 396
Whitman in China 406
Whitman in japan 429
Selected Bibliographies 437
Notes on Contributors 467
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University of Iowa Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-87745-498-4 eISBN: 978-1-58729-004-6
Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ed Folsom is Roy J. Carver Professor of English and editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review at the University of Iowa. Coeditor of the Walt Whitman Archive, he is the author ofWalt Whitman's Native Representations, coeditor of Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa, 1995), and editor of Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (Iowa, 1994), among many other publications.
The late Gay Wilson Allen was emeritus professor of English at New York University, the author of biographies of Walt Whitman, William James, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the general editor of The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman.
REVIEWS
“A simply splendid collection of responses to Whitman's poetry in a great diversity of voices, forms, and nationalities. The spirit of the performance is—what else?—Whitmanian, grandly and lovingly executed.”—Nineteenth-Century Literature
“An extraordinary book in both ambition and execution, edited by two of the most distinguished Whitman scholars representing the older and younger generations. The book shows the American poet of self and democracy, some 150 years after he launched his spiritual journey, still sauntering down that open road.”—James E. Miller, Jr., University of Chicago
“This book brings together the best critics and the most representative views of Whitman from around the globe. Its internationality reflects the poet's own grand ideas about democracy and diversity.”—Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents:
Introduction: "Salut au Monde!" 1
Whitman and the British Isles 11
Whitman in Spain and Latin America 71
Whitman in Brazil 128
Whitman in Portugal 147
Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries 160
Whitman in the Netherlands 231
Whitman in France and Belgium 233
Whitman in Italy 268
Whitman in the Former Yugoslavia 282
Whitman in Poland 295
Whitman in Russia 300
Whitman in Sweden 339
Whitman in Denmark and Norway 357
Whitman in Finland 381
Whitman in Israel 386
Whitman in India 396
Whitman in China 406
Whitman in japan 429
Selected Bibliographies 437
Notes on Contributors 467
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