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Walt Whitman's Quaker Paradox

Gould, Mitchell Santine. "Walt Whitman's Quaker Paradox." Quaker History. 96.1 (2007): 1-23.
Type: 
journal
Genre: 
history, literary criticism
Abstract: 

Explores the common Quaker heritage of both Walt Whitman and Henry Clapp, Jr., to argue that the discourses of male comradeship and same-sex love prominent in Whitman's writings--and subtly present in Clapp's--have their origins in Quaker thought. 

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