Walt Whitman And The Culture Of American Celebrity

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity.

• | Author: Barclays Bank Reader in Financial Economics David Blake, David Blake
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0300217137
• | ISBN-13: 9780300217131