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001 2014008822
003 DLC
005 20150611080321.0
008 140428s2014 nyuaf b 001 0ceng
010 $a 2014008822
020 $a9780306822261 (hardback)
020 $z9780306822278 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS3231$b.M19 2014
082 00 $a811/.3$aB$223
084 $aBIO007000$aPOE005010$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMartin, Justin.
245 10 $aRebel Souls :$bWalt Whitman and America's First Bohemians /$cJustin Martin.
264 1 $aNew York :$bDa Capo Press,$c[2014]
300 $axi, 339 pages, 16 plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists-- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan--rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln. This vibrant tale, packed with original research, offers the pleasures of a great group biography like The Banquet Years or The Metaphysical Club. Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture--imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon--seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Certain moments and settings in literary history are so dense and rich as to require a group biography. Bloomsbury, Berlin in the 20's, or the periods in Paris that inspired The Banquet Years or A Charmed Circle are among these.The birth of Bohemia in New York on the eve of the Civil War is such a moment. The brilliant, rowdy circle included Walt Whitman, Edwin Booth, the comic Artemus Ward, and reached out to involve Emerson, Albert Bierstadt, and Mark Twain. Whitman towered over this circle which in turn liberated both his life and his work. In this ebullient story, packed with original research, Justin Martin, the author of 3 acclaimed and successful biographies, shows how this first "Bohemian" culture, imported from Paris, sprouted in a dingy Broadway saloon against the shadow of a fractured nation, nurtured and launched Walt Whitman and seeded an American tradition of rebel art that endures today. "--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $a"A Merloyd Lawrence Book"
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aWhitman, Walt,$d1819-1892$xFriends and associates.
650 0 $aBohemianism$zNew York (State)$zNew York$yHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
600 10 $aWard, Artemus,$d1834-1867.
600 10 $aBooth, Edwin,$d1833-1893.
600 10 $aLudlow, Fitz Hugh,$d1836-1870.
600 10 $aMenken, Adah Isaacs,$d1835-1868.
600 10 $aClapp, Henry,$d1814-1875.
650 0 $aBars (Drinking establishments)$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y19th century.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOETRY / American / General.$2bisacsh