Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship : homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity / Juan A. Herrero Brasas.
Material type: TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781441648686
- 1441648682
- 1438430124
- 9781438430126
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Relations with men
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Friends and associates
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Ethics
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Gay men -- United States -- Biography
- Poètes américains -- 19e siècle -- Biographies
- Homosexuels masculins -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- Ethics
- Friendship
- Gay men
- Man-woman relationships
- Poets, American
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 811/.3 22
- PS3232 .H47 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise -- The building of a reputation -- Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions -- The character of Whitman's religion -- The creed -- The mystic hypothesis -- The strong hypothesis -- The weak hypothesis -- The denial of the hypothesis -- A gospel of beauty -- The classical roots of aestheticism -- Whitman and the platonic tradition -- From phrenology to aesthetic morality -- Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision -- Whitman and Nietzsche -- Whitman and Oscar Wilde -- The love of comrades -- A messianic mission -- The nature of comradeship -- Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality -- Mystical interpretations of comradeship -- Ethical aspects of comradeship -- Religious aspects of comradeship -- Social and political aspects of comradeship -- Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love -- Whitman, the moral reformer -- Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern -- The character of Whitman's new morality -- An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory -- Whitman's attitude to war -- Robert K. Martin's theory : "fucked by the earth" -- David Keubrich's theory : post-Christian millennialism -- Reynolds's theory : "immoral didacticism" -- A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory -- An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth -- A queer (theory) postscript -- A queer (theory) twist : no new species -- Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy -- Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.
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