Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

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Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity is written by Barclays Bank Reader in Financial Economics David Blake and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300217137 (ISBN 10) and 9780300217131 (ISBN 13).

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype? One of the first full-scale treatments of celebrity in nineteenth-century America, this book examines Walt Whitman's lifelong interest in fame and publicity.