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Overview"Walt Whitman (1819-1892) contributed to the greatest prose of American letters with Democratic Vistas, now considered a classic discussion of the theory of democracy and its possibilities. In this essay he protests the unrestrained materialism, greed, corruption and spiritual failure of what, two years later, Mark Twain would label ""The Gilded Age."" Whitman criticizes America for its ""mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry"" that mask an underlying ""dry and flat Sahara"" of soul. He calls for a new kind of literature to revive the American population: ""Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does."" Whitman was one of the few writers to keep the Emersonian faith in individual and cultural regeneration after the Civil War." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Imprint: Fredonia Books (NL) Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 19.10cm Weight: 0.218kg ISBN: 9781410100665ISBN 10: 1410100669 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 30 November 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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