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Whitman and the Romance of Medicine by Robert Leigh Davis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Robert Leigh Davis

Current price: $72.95
Whitman and the Romance of Medicine by Robert Leigh Davis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Whitman and the Romance of Medicine by Robert Leigh Davis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Whitman and the Romance of Medicine by Robert Leigh Davis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Robert Leigh Davis

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In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of "convalescence" in nineteenth-century medicine and philosophy-along with Whitman's personal war experiences-provide a crucial point of convergence for Whitman's work as a gay and democratic writer. In his analysis of Whitman's writings during this period-Drum-Taps, Democratic Vistas, Memoranda During the War, along with journalistic works and correspondence-Davis argues against the standard interpretation that Whitman's earliest work was his best. He finds instead that Whitman's hospital writings are his most persuasive account of the democratic experience. Deeply moved by the courage and dignity of common soldiers, Whitman came to identify the Civil War hospitals with the very essence of American democratic life, and his writing during this period includes some of his most urgent reflections on suffering, sympathy, violence, and love. Davis concludes this study with an essay on the contemporary medical writer Richard Selzer, who develops the implications of Whitman's ideas into a new theory of medical narrative. | Whitman and the Romance of Medicine by Robert Leigh Davis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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