Rebel Souls : : Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
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"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. This vibrant tale, packed with original research, offers the pleasures of a great group biography like The Banquet Years or The Metaphysical Club. 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.
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A Merloyd Lawrence book.
PUBLISHED
Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780306822261
0306822261
SUBJECTS
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 -- History -- 19th century.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.