BOOK

Rebel Souls : Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians

Martin, Justin

2014

Overview

\"In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists-- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan-- rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln. Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture--imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon--seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day. \"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
• Subject: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Friends and associates. / Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867. / Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893. / Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 1836-1870. / Menken, Adah Isaacs, 1835-1868. / Bohemianism New York (State) New York History 19th century. / Bars (Drinking establishments) New York (State) New York History 19th century. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Literary. / POETRY - American - General. / New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780306822261, 0306822261

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3231.M19 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE