Whitman's Drift Imagining Literary Distribution |
|
| Author:
| Cohen, Matt |
| Series title: | Iowa Whitman Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-476-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
|
Whitman's Drift asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read. Writers like Whitman spoke to the imagination inspired by media transformations by calling attention to connectedness, to how literature not only moves us emotionally, but moves around in the world among people and places. Studying that literature and how it circulated can help us understand not just how to read Whitman's works and times, but how to...
More Description Whitman's Drift asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read. Writers like Whitman spoke to the imagination inspired by media transformations by calling attention to connectedness, to how literature not only moves us emotionally, but moves around in the world among people and places. Studying that literature and how it circulated can help us understand not just how to read Whitman's works and times, but how to understand what is happening to our imaginations now, in the midst of the twenty-first century media explosion.