Walt Whitman's Native Representations (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Walt Whitman looked to many different areas of American culture to develop a distinctively American poetry. This book investigates four of the areas he found most fertile for his own poetic development: the evolution of American dictionaries, the growth of the national sport of baseball, the decimation of American Indians, and the development of American photography.Ed Folsom is the author of 'Walt Whitman's Native Representations (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)', published 1994 under ISBN 9780521453578 and ISBN 0521453577.