A Disciple of Whitman and Ruskin: William Harrison Riley, Transatlantic Celebrity, and the Perils of Working-Class Fandom.

This article focuses on attempts by working-class intellectual, William Harrison Riley, to act as a transatlantic bridge connecting John Ruskin and Walt Whitman, and on what this reveals about nineteenth-century celebrity culture. Despite contrasting attitudes to fame, Ruskin and Whitman both constr...

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Published in:	Critical Survey Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 63 - 82
Main Author:	Frost, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Berghahn Books 2015
Subjects:	Riley, William Harrison Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Nineteenth century History of capitalism
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost