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Published on: 2007-06-26
Released on: 2007-06-26
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Not many people know that Walt Whitman—arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century—began his literary career as a novelist. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman’s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies.The novel tells the rags-to-riches story of Franklin Evans, an innocent young man from the Long Island countryside who seeks his fortune in New York City. Corrupted by music halls, theaters, and above all taverns, he gradually becomes a drunkard. Until the very end of the tale, Evans’s efforts to abstain fail, and each time he resumes drinking, another series of misadventures ensues. Along the way, Evans encounters a world of mores and conventions rapidly changing in response to the vicissitudes of slavery, investment capital, urban mass culture, and fervent reform. Although Evans finally signs a temperance pledge, his sobriety remains haunted by the often contradictory and unsettling changes in antebellum American culture.The editors’ substantial introduction situates Franklin Evans in relation to Whitman’s life and career, mid-nineteenth-century American print culture, and many of the developments and institutions the novel depicts, including urbanization, immigration, slavery, the temperance movement, and new understandings of class, race, gender, and sexuality. This edition includes a short temperance story Whitman published at about the same time as he did Franklin Evans, the surviving fragment of what appears to be another unfinished temperance novel by Whitman, and a temperance speech Abraham Lincoln gave the same year that Franklin Evans was published. web.mit.edu / jik/src/Attic/kerberos_ password - . .mn 0 01 05_1 1 10 100 10th 11 11_d0003 12 13 14 141a 143b 15 16 17 17igp 18 19 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 ... Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9788466634359 8466634355 Intuicin Sandra Brown Eduardo Iriarte Goni 9781891792458 1891792458 Minding the Gap - Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense ... Guitar chords and lyrics made easy - gChords.net Guitar chords and lyrics made easy. Search view and store your chords on your desktop smartphone and tablet. Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9780310938972 031093897X True Identity Bible for Women-NIV - Becoming Who You Are in Christ Zondervan Bibles 9780769285511 0769285511 Ultimate Beginner Banjo - Video ... Traditional Folk ald old songs collection of 3700 Songs ... A collection of 3700+ lyrics for traditional folk and old songs also with pdf and rtf versions for printing and editing nieu horoskops: Mrkais eHoroskopi No vism 12 nieu horoskopa zmm Mrkais ir vissaretk un pretrungk zme. Parasti vii ir cilvki ar grtu un nelaimgu likteni.
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