TY - BOOK AU - Maslan,Mark TI - Whitman possessed: poetry, sexuality, and popular authority SN - 080187646X AV - PS3242.S47 M37 2001eb U1 - 811/.3 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Whitman, Walt, KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Power (Social sciences) in literature KW - Male homosexuality in literature KW - Possessiveness in literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Authority in literature KW - Gay men in literature KW - Self in literature KW - Sex in literature KW - Poetics KW - Homosexualité et littérature KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature KW - Homosexualité masculine dans la littérature KW - Possessivité dans la littérature KW - Masculinité dans la littérature KW - Autorité dans la littérature KW - Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature KW - Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - Sexualité dans la littérature KW - Poétique KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Political and social views KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-213) and index; Sexual hygiene: the natural gates and alleys of the body -- Ravishment and rapture -- Masses and muses -- Fictions of possession; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - This is a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. The author reads his works in relation to 19th-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration and political representation UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=75727 ER -