Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”

Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”

This article analyzes 19th-century US poet Walt Whitman’s vindication of “adhesiveness” as imperative to the formation of a social democracy which might heal the neighborly hatreds of a divided United States and bind the nation together at a time of violent fragmentation and Civil War. The article e...

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Autor principal: Laura López Peña
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Publicado: Universitat de Barcelona 2014
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Walt Whitman
adhesive love
democracy
“Calamus”
“Drum-Taps”
Women. Feminism
HQ1101-2030.7
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:01bf9fbacd7f42caa15ab0586b1700bd2021-12-02T19:36:59ZDressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”1136-57812013-9470https://doaj.org/article/01bf9fbacd7f42caa15ab0586b1700bd2014-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/10722https://doaj.org/toc/1136-5781https://doaj.org/toc/2013-9470This article analyzes 19th-century US poet Walt Whitman’s vindication of “adhesiveness” as imperative to the formation of a social democracy which might heal the neighborly hatreds of a divided United States and bind the nation together at a time of violent fragmentation and Civil War. The article examines Whitman’s location of the possibility of politics and democracy at the interpersonal level, and connects the poet’s political project in his 1860 “Calamus” with that in the 1865 “Drum-Taps”, studying how Whitman’s belief in the uniting capacity of love between men remained constant even as he was witnessing the tragic consequences of a four-year Civil War which would widen even more the irreconcilable gulfs between different Americans.Laura López PeñaUniversitat de BarcelonaarticleWalt Whitmanadhesive lovedemocracy“Calamus”“Drum-Taps”Women. FeminismHQ1101-2030.7CAENESEUFRGLITPTLectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, Iss 20 (2014)
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EN
ES
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topic Walt Whitman
adhesive love
democracy
“Calamus”
“Drum-Taps”
Women. Feminism
HQ1101-2030.7
spellingShingle Walt Whitman
adhesive love
democracy
“Calamus”
“Drum-Taps”
Women. Feminism
HQ1101-2030.7
Laura López Peña
Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”
description This article analyzes 19th-century US poet Walt Whitman’s vindication of “adhesiveness” as imperative to the formation of a social democracy which might heal the neighborly hatreds of a divided United States and bind the nation together at a time of violent fragmentation and Civil War. The article examines Whitman’s location of the possibility of politics and democracy at the interpersonal level, and connects the poet’s political project in his 1860 “Calamus” with that in the 1865 “Drum-Taps”, studying how Whitman’s belief in the uniting capacity of love between men remained constant even as he was witnessing the tragic consequences of a four-year Civil War which would widen even more the irreconcilable gulfs between different Americans.
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title Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”
title_short Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”
title_full Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”
title_fullStr Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”
title_full_unstemmed Dressing Uncivil Neighbor(hood)s. Walt Whitman's Adhesive Democracy in “Calamus” and “Drum-Taps”
title_sort dressing uncivil neighbor(hood)s. walt whitman's adhesive democracy in “calamus” and “drum-taps”
publisher Universitat de Barcelona
publishDate 2014
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