| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | A Companion to American Literature and Culture |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell |
| Pages | 250-283 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780631208921 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 16 2010 |
Keywords
- Decade of the thirties-militant resistance to federal power and inhumane social conditions of slavery
- Epics of democracy
- Mardi and a Voyage Thither (1849)-as another sea narrative in the popular mode of Typee and Omoo
- Melville and Whitman-crisis over revolutionary ideals of the founding and the American "experiment" with democracy
- Melville, Whitman, and the tribulations of democracy
- Revolutionary formations-Whitman's family, democratic party politics in the Age of Jackson
- Social and political contests of the time-conflict between promise of the Declaration of Independence, between democratic rights and constitutional law
- The American 1848-envisioning specter of mass carnage and a second American Revolution-Battle of Monmouth seeming like child's play
- The fractured state-exploring nagging ironies, contradictions, and delusions of revolutionary heritage
- Whitman and Melville, retreating from radical political movements of their time, abolition and reconstruction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)
Cite this
Erkkila, B. J. (2010). Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy. In A Companion to American Literature and Culture (pp. 250-283). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320626.ch16