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Article: Michael Robertson. Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2008
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Michael Robertson. Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008. 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-6911-280805, $27.95.
"I say at the core of democracy, finally," Walt Whitman wrote, "is the religious element." Michael Robertson's Worshipping Walt takes up this statement's implicit challenge. How did Whitman and his most enthusiastic readers understand politics and religion as intertwined, and what is the legacy of that understanding today? Robertson observes that scholars have tended to read Whitman from within the "secularization thesis," only recently asking how "modernity led to different forms of religious expression" like Leaves of Grass (9). ...
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