"Heroic Spiritual Grandfather": Whitman, Sexuality, and the American Left, 1890-1940

Examining the process by which successive generations of radicals adopted and refunctioned, Walt Whitman not only discloses the limitations of their social vision but permits a reconsideration of the ways that the Left confronted the politics of sexuality. Beneath the weight of dogma, Whitman's...

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Published in:	American quarterly Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 90 - 126
Main Author:	Garman, Bryan K.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia, Pa Johns Hopkins University Press 01-03-2000 University of Pennsylvania
Subjects:	Activism American literature Artisans Gays & lesbians Gender equality Homosexual relationships Left wing politics Liberalism Love Love poetry Marxism Men Poetry Poets Politics Queer culture Sexuality Socialism Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
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Summary:	Examining the process by which successive generations of radicals adopted and refunctioned, Walt Whitman not only discloses the limitations of their social vision but permits a reconsideration of the ways that the Left confronted the politics of sexuality. Beneath the weight of dogma, Whitman's most self-conscious disciples struggled with the poet's fundamental premise that social and sexual reform must be inextricably linked.
ISSN:	0003-0678 1080-6490 1080-6490
DOI:	10.1353/aq.2000.0004