Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Department
English
Reader 1
Cheryl Walker
Reader 2
Aaron Matz
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© 2014 Vivian Delchamps
Abstract
This thesis contemplates Walt Whitman's role in the lives of 19th and 20th century women writers and his significance to early American feminism. I consider the ways women inspired him to develop pro-feminist ideas about maternity, womanhood, and female liberation.
Recommended Citation
Delchamps, Vivian, "“Of the Woman First of All”: Walt Whitman and Women's Literary History" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 420.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/420
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