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Chapter 23 - Melville/Whitman

from Part III - Authors and Figures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Kelly Ross
Edited by
Justine S. Murison
Justine S. Murison
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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This essay focuses on the year 1855, which saw the publication of the first edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and Herman Melville’s Israel Potter. In looking at how these two publications present American history, the essay deemphasizes the relation of these two authors to what is coming (the Civil War, and their poetry on it) and instead considers the whole of the period not as an antebellum period but a bellicose period, marked by continual warfare.

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Herman MelvilleWalt Whitmanwar in American history
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American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860 , pp. 388 - 403
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Melville/Whitman
  • Edited by Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois
  • Book: American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
  • Online publication: 09 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566872.027
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  • Melville/Whitman
  • Edited by Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois
  • Book: American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
  • Online publication: 09 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566872.027
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  • Melville/Whitman
  • Edited by Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois
  • Book: American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
  • Online publication: 09 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566872.027
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