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'The editors' substantial introduction locates Franklin Evans in relation to Whitman's life and career, mid-nineteenth-century American print culture, and many of the developments and institutions the novel depicts, including urbanization, immigration, slavery, the temperance movement, and new understandings of class, ...
Title: Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times Date: November 23, 1842 Creator(s): Walt Whitman Whitman Archive ID: per.00267 Source: The New World, November 23, 1842: [1]–31. Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held in the private collection of Ed Folsom.
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Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman’s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies.
Whitman had begun writing short fiction in the 1830s; his only novel, shown here, appeared as an extra installment in Benjamin’s New World.Although Whitman later called Franklin Evans “damn rot” and claimed to have written it in a mere three days with the help of a “bottle of port” (Traubel 1: 63), the piece skillfully employs every cliché known to writers at the time in the service ...
17 de jul. de 2007 · Franklin Evans is the only novel written by Great American Poet Walt Whitman and it shows. The novel is well written but it is definitely of the time. Someone who doesn't usually read novels of this time period will find it hard to get through.
Franklin Evans, which became his most popular work in the 19th century, selling around two thousand copies. Despite being a best-seller at the time, as a novel, Franklin Evans has mostly been neglected for its plot discordance and formulaic cliché narrative. As a matter of fact, Carme Manuel starts her
