Franklin Evans Or the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times ... With Introduction by Emory Holloway
Author : Walt Whitman
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File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1929
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Author : Walt Whitman
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File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1929
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Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822389983
Not many people know that Walt Whitman—arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century—began his literary career as a novelist. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman’s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies. The novel tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theaters, and above all taverns, he gradually becomes a drunkard. Until the very end of the tale, Evans’s efforts to abstain fail, and each time he resumes drinking, another series of misadventures ensues. Along the way, Evans encounters a world of mores and conventions rapidly changing in response to the vicissitudes of slavery, investment capital, urban mass culture, and fervent reform. Although Evans finally signs a temperance pledge, his sobriety remains haunted by the often contradictory and unsettling changes in antebellum American culture. The editors’ substantial introduction situates Franklin Evans in relation to Whitman’s life and career, mid-nineteenth-century American print culture, and many of the developments and institutions the novel depicts, including urbanization, immigration, slavery, the temperance movement, and new understandings of class, race, gender, and sexuality. This edition includes a short temperance story Whitman published at about the same time as he did Franklin Evans, the surviving fragment of what appears to be another unfinished temperance novel by Whitman, and a temperance speech Abraham Lincoln gave the same year that Franklin Evans was published.
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 1967-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780808401360
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Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822339427
DIVA reprint of a novel and other temperance writings by Walt Whitman, with an introduction and explanatory notes by the editors./div
Author : Megan Benton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300082135
After World War I, the US was flooded with newspapers, magazines, radio stations and movies. Many feared serious books would disappear altogether. The concern caused a boom in fine editions, valued for beauty, craftsmanship or rarity, rather than content, and this is their story.
Author : Jay Grossman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822331162
DIVOffers a revised view of the American Renaissance that shows (a) how the debates about political representatives as they developed around the framing and ratifications of the U.S. Constitution have structured the rhetoric of subsequent generations of writ/div
Author : Walt Whitman Society of America
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Broadsides
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Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Author : New York Public Library
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Bibliography
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Donald D. Kummings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405195517
Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman’s work, and of the experimental nature of his writing Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography