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Walt Whitman's Quaker Paradox

Gould, Mitchell Santine. "Walt Whitman's Quaker Paradox." Quaker History. 96.1 (2007): 1-23.
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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. 

People Mentioned in this Work

Brisbane, Albert
Clapp, Henry
Whitman, Walt

MENTIONED IN - Walt Whitman's Quaker Paradox

Whitman, Walt

Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.