Whitman's Ecstatic Union
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Whitman's Ecstatic Union
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 redeem the nation by inducing ecstatic, regenerating experiences in its readers.Whitman's Ecstatic Unionexplores the ecstasy of conversion as a liminal moment outside of language and culture, and-employing Althusser's model of ideological interpellation and anthropological models of religious ritual-shows how evangelicalism remade subjects by inducing ecstasy and instilling new narratives of identity. The book analyzes Whitman's historical relationship to preaching and conversion and reads the 1855 Song of Myself as a conversion narrative. A focus on the 1856 edition and the poem To You explores the sacred seductions at the heart of Whitman's poetry. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and Whitman's vision of a world of perfect miracles are then connected to a conception of universal affection, uncannily paralleling Jonathan Edward's ideal of love to being in general. A conclusion looks toward the transformations of Whitman's vision in the 1860 edition.
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Studies In Medievalism
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Studies In Medievalism
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Between Profits and Primitivism
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Between Profits and Primitivism
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
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Racial Blasphemies
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Racial Blasphemies
Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words - that furiously communicates not theology or spirituality as much as it signals the sheer difficulty of representing race in a non-racist manner on the literary page.
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From Dickens To'dracula'
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From Dickens To'dracula'
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The Ovidian Heroine As Author
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The Ovidian Heroine As Author
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The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire
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The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire
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Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
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Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
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