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Turner, Jack. "DEMOCRATIC VISTAS (1871): Whitman's American Tragedy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64944_index.html>

Turner, J. , 2002-08-28 "DEMOCRATIC VISTAS (1871): Whitman's American Tragedy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64944_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Given its temporal centrality in American history, it is surprising that Walt Whitman's 1871 prose work, Democratic Vistas, has not received greater attention from students of American political thought. Not that temporal location alone should rule what we scrutinize and what we ignore as political theorists and historians of ideas, but when a work lies on a fault line between two epochs in history and political thinking, it provides a unique window into the nature and meaning of that transition and an opportunity to analyze the dynamic between political theory and historical change. One reason we read Hobbes's Leviathan, for example, is its historical proximity to the English Civil War, the Treaty of Westphalia, and the rise of the modern nation-state. Similarly, we read Paine's Common Sense and Madison, Hamilton and Jay's The Federalist Papers in dialogue with the events surrounding the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, and the struggle for ratification. Theoretical text and historical moment, in these cases, are inextricable: each offers a window into the other. While Democratic Vistas certainly has a lesser claim to historical importance than these three works, its proximity to the American Civil War and its location within the struggles of Reconstruction and the dawning Gilded Age make it a text with a similar, though lesser, potential to encapsulate an era.

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