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- Title
Whitman's Sailors and Other Friends.
- Authors
Gould, Mitchell Santine
- Abstract
The article is meant to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of "Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman. The author discusses the references to Quackerism in Whitman's work, with the opinion that 19th-century Hicksite Quakerism would have been too strict for the writer. Fictional accounts of quaker feelings and sexual yearnings between men are detailed in this article. Opinion that the quaker paradox with Whitman's sailor-lover-quaker triangle show his emotional and cultural ties to the seas and to mariners. The economic aspect of sailors' sexual orientation is mentioned in association with Quaker values in which manly love leads toward God.
- Subjects
WHITMAN, Walt, 1819-1892; GAY men in literature; MALE homosexuality in literature; QUAKERS in literature; SEXUAL orientation; SAILORS; QUAKERS; SOCIETY of Friends; LEAVES of Grass (Book : Whitman); NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 2004, Vol 11, Issue 2, p19
- ISSN
1532-1118
- Publication type
Article