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- Title
Audience Terminable and Interminable: Anne Gilchrist, Walt Whitman,and the Achievement of Disinhibited Reading.
- Authors
Cavitch, Max
- Abstract
Focuses on the relationship between Anne Gilchrist and poet Walt Whitman, and the achievement of disinhibited reading. Gilchrist's introduction to Whiltman's poetry in 1869 by her friend William Michael Rossetti; Gilchrist's discovery of the object of her desire in Whitman's poetry; Whitman's affection for Gilchrist; Gilchrist's letters to Whitman between 1871 and 1876; Whitman's singular practice of revision and edition; Gilchrist's erotic disappointment in her relationship with Whitman.
- Subjects
WHITMAN, Walt, 1819-1892; GILCHRIST, Anne Burrows, 1828-1885; MAN-woman relationships; LITERATURE; POETRY (Literary form); POETS; LETTERS; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 2, p249
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0021