Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman's Secret Health Writings
Date and Time
July 18, 2016
Location
The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Event Details
In 1858, Walt Whitman published under a pseudonym a series of articles comprising a book-length manifesto, "Manly Health and Training," which appeared serially in The New York Atlas, on diet, exercise, and the future of American health. The series came out at a critical juncture in US history, and this newly rediscovered series encapsulates many of the great debates that helped define the health sciences, then and now. It also offers a rare glimpse into a "lost" year in the life of Walt Whitman.
Whitman's authorship of the series was uncovered by Zachary Turpin, a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Houston, and he will explore his recovery of the series, and its place in Whitman's life's work, at the Academy of Medicine, on July 18, 6:00-7:30 p.m. His talk will be followed by a discussion with Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the NYPL Berg Collection, followed by Q&A with the audience. The program is titled Up!: Manhood, Democratic Medicine, and Walt Whitman's Secret Health Writings, and is co-sponsored by the New york Public Library. Free event, RSVP required.
Zachary Turpin is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Houston. His research interests include nineteenth-century periodical culture, digital-archival research, textual recovery, and the history of American philosophy. Besides publishing studies of the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, he has recovered lost or neglected works by Walt Whitman, Emma Lazarus, Rebecca Harding Davis, and L. Frank Baum. His scholarship appears, or is forthcoming, in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, ESQ, Leviathan, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, J19, and American Literary Realism.