Walt Whitman and the World

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Walt Whitman and the World is written by Gay Wilson Allen and published by University of Iowa Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1587290049 (ISBN 10) and 9781587290046 (ISBN 13).

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.