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Walt Whitman's Quaker Paradox

Gould, Mitchell Santine. "Walt Whitman's Quaker Paradox." Quaker History 96, no. 1 (2007): 1-23.
Electronic Source Available
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.