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"Scrutinizing the weave and texture of Walt Whitman's earliest poetry and fiction, the notebooks of 1855-56, the first edition (1855) of Leaves of Grass, and the Calamus poems, Byrne R. S. Fone demonstrates that from the beginning and throughout, Whitman's homoerotic muse, his ""Fierce Wrestler,"" dictated the shape, tone, and message of the poetry. Fone shows how Whitman's presumed homosexuality is reflected in the work. He identifies the definitive signs, symbols, metaphors, andstructures unique to homosexual texts as he examines the ways in which the social, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sexual facts of homosexuality shape and define such texts. Further, he places Whitman in the context of nineteenth-century literary/social homosexual life as well as in the context of homosexual fantasy as expressed in certain nineteenth-century texts."

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Author:   Bryne R.S. Fone
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780809317615

ISBN 10:   0809317613
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 June 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Byrne R. S. Fone is professor of English at the City University of New York. He is the author of Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination, numerous articles, and a novel American Lives.

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