JEFFERSONIAN WHITMAN: THE IMPACT OF JEFFERSON ON WHITMAN
JEFFERSONIAN WHITMAN: THE IMPACT OF JEFFERSON ON WHITMAN
Author(s): Kiyotaka SueyoshiSubject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), American Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Democratic Party; republicanism; the Declaration of Independence; Wilmot proviso;
Summary/Abstract: As regards the relation between Whitman and U.S. presidency, the critical studies center on the relation between Whitman and Lincoln. The process of Whitman’s commitment to the Democratic Party and his alienation from it, and of becoming the self-anointed inheritor of Jeffersonian republicanism plays a key role in the formation of political and poetical Whitman. Faced with the disunion of the U.S., Whitman had recourse to the ideal of the Founding Fathers. Whitman’s poetry is the mediation between Jeffersonian republicanism and Whitman’s America, and between politics and poetics.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 27/2021
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 201-209
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English