The Times of Melville and Whitman by Van Wyck Brooks

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Title: The Times of Melville and Whitman by Van Wyck Brooks 
Summary:  The book is a blend of literary criticism, biography, and cultural history. Brooks situates Herman Melville and Walt Whitman (and to a certain extent their contemporaries) within the wider social, cultural, and intellectual currents of mid-19th century America. 
Brooks uses a narrative style that allows these “characters” (Melville, Whitman, Mark Twain also enters the picture) to emerge organically within their times — not merely as isolated geniuses, but as figures shaped by, and shaping, their historical moment. 
It covers roughly the period from the 1840s through the latter half of the 19th century, tracing literary, social, and cultural changes in America, and how those changes related to (and were reflected in) the works of Melville, Whitman, and others. 
Brooks is concerned not just with the texts of these writers, but with the historical “milieu” in which they wrote: the political, technological, social, and intellectual transformations of the U.S. in that era.
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
Publisher: Readers Union. J.M. Dent and sons Ltd.
Year Published: 1949
Edition: Original
Dimensions: 21.5cm x 14cm 
Binding type: Hardcover
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SKU: VSS / 255 / G / 6651 / 5012 
Condition 
Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable
Book condition: Fair. Fading, rubbing, bumps, handling marks, marks, light foxing to text block edge. toning
Binding: Intact
Pages: 373 pages
 
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