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"Terrible, Beautiful Days": The Semifictional Whitman

Author: Nick Mason-Browne

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    "Terrible, Beautiful Days": The Semifictional Whitman

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Abstract

Suggests Whitman's problematic relationship to fiction, both as a writer of fiction and as a character in fiction, and discusses the fictional Whitman in works by Cameron Rogers, John Erskine, Elizabeth Corbett, Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams, and others, with a focus on Whitman's often iconographic appearance in Civil War stories by William Douglas O'Connor, Fred Chappell, Chris Adrian, Allan Gurganus, and Richard Selzer.

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Mason-Browne, N., (2005) “"Terrible, Beautiful Days": The Semifictional Whitman”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 22(4), 179-193. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1771

Rights: Copyright © 2005 Nick Mason-Browne

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01 Apr 2005
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