Scrutinizing the weave and texture of Walt Whitman’s earliest poetry and fiction, the notebooks of 185556, 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, and structures 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.

Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text

Literature & Fiction

Byrne Fone

History & Criticism

Southern Illinois University Press

<p>An architectural portrait of the city of Hudson, NY (est. 1783), featuring more than 200 antique and modern photographs and antique maps, with many of the photographs dating from 1850-1930. The city of Hudson, founded in 1783 by Quaker merchants and whalers from New England, has been called "a dictionary of American Architecture" because of its many 18th and 19th century buildings that have survived to the present day. With a foreword by poet John Ashbery, and an introduction by novelist/screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and photographer Lynn Davis.</p>

Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait

History

Americas

Black Dome Press Corp.

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