The following quote comes from Chapter 1 of Shari Benstock’s Expatriate Modernism: Writing on the Cultural Rim. I’ve bolded the parts that feel particularly resonant with what we’ve discussed in class concerning early reactions to Dickinson. “In Gertrude Stein’s writing
Katia’s CS for February 16
At the start of “Whitman and the Gay American Ethos”, Killingsworth mentions Whitman’s movement “away from claims of full disclosure (‘to go undisguised and naked’) toward a complex interplay of revealing and concealing a ‘secret’ at the center of identity”
Top five Walt Whitman images
(In no particular order, because I couldn’t possibly rank these.) Item one: nice one, Walt. Really going for a certain kind of appeal here. I’ll be honest, much as I’d love to sit here and make jokes about Hot Walt
