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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

Autor Walt Whitman Editat de Christopher Castiglia, Glenn Hendler
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 iul 2007
Not many people know that Walt Whitman—arguably the pre-eminent American poet of the nineteenth century—began his literary career as a novelist. Out of print since 1967, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times, was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of intense temperance movement activity, it became Whitman’s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies. The novel tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theatres, and above all taverns, he gradually becomes a drunkard. Until the very end of the tale, Evans’s efforts to reform fail, and each time he resumes drinking, another series of misadventures ensues. Along the way, he tries to ally himself with several powerful, wealthy men, and he marries twice. His first wife dies the victim of his drunken neglect, and his second wife—a Creole slave that he rescues from a lascivious overseer—kills herself after murdering his mistress. The death of one of his benefactors finally prompts Evans to sign a “total abstinence pledge.” The editors’ substantial introduction locates Franklin Evans in relation to Whitman’s life and career, mid-nineteenth-century American print culture, and many of the developments and institutions the novel depicts, including urbanization, immigration, slavery, the temperance movement, and new understandings of class, race, gender, and sexuality. This edition includes three very short temperance stories Whitman published at about the same time as he did Franklin Evans, the surviving fragment of what appears to be another unfinished temperance novel by Whitman, and a temperance speech by Abraham Lincoln from the same year Franklin Evans was published.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822339311
ISBN-10: 0822339315
Pagini: 147
Ilustrații: 3 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 162 x 232 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Recenzii

“Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler provide a truly state-of-the-art introduction to Walt Whitman’s only novel, a lively and thorough account of the varied contexts that best illuminate the significance of Whitman’s rough and rowdy tale.” Michael Moon, author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass" . . . the story's assimilative energy, strange idealism and fascination with the pleasures of the masculine body, are characteristically Whitmanesque."--TLS 30 November 2007

Notă biografică

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a poet, journalist, and essayist. His enormously influential poetry includes the collection "Leaves of Grass," first published in 1855.Christopher Castiglia is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of "Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst."Glenn Hendler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Fordham University (2006-07). He is the author of "Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature" and a coeditor of "Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture."

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"Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler provide a truly state-of-the-art introduction to Walt Whitman's only novel, a lively and thorough account of the varied contexts that best illuminate the significance of Whitman's rough and rowdy tale."--Michael Moon, author of" Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in "Leaves of Grass

Descriere

A reprint of a novel and other temperance writings by Walt Whitman, with an introduction and explanatory notes