Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship

homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity

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Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship

homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity

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Table of Contents

Introduction
"Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise"
The building of a reputation
Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparition
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 homosexuality
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 : "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)
A queer (theory) twist
Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy
Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Albany
Genre
Biography

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Dewey Decimal Class
811/.3, B
Library of Congress
PS3232 .H47 2010, PS3232.H47 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL23392306M
Internet Archive
waltwhitmansmyst00bras
ISBN 13
9781438430119
LCCN
2009021078
OCLC/WorldCat
367420709

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