When Time and Place Avail: Whitman's Written Orator Reconsidered

Jake Adam York

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1673

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When Time and Place Avail: Whitman's Written Orator Reconsidered

Abstract

Explores Whitman's hope for "a written speech" and looks to "the culture of nineteenth-century American oratory" for precedents in the search for "a fusion of speech and writing," particularly "the epideictic or commemorative oratory of Daniel Webster and Edward Everett"; uses these materials to read "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."

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How to Cite: York, J. A. (2001) “When Time and Place Avail: Whitman's Written Orator Reconsidered”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 19(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1673