| Description |
xiii, 607 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 40 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 40.
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| Note |
Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Donald D. Kummings -- PART I: THE LIFE: Whitman's life and work, 1819-92 / Gregory Eiselein -- PART II: THE CULTURAL CONTEXT: Journalism / Douglas A. Noverr -- The city / William Pannpacker -- Labor and laborers / M. Wynn Thomas -- Politics / Gary Wihl -- Oratory / J.R. LeMaster -- Slavery and race / Martin Klammer -- Nation and identity / Eldrid Herrington -- A theory of organic democracy / Stephen John Mack -- Imperialism / Walter Grunzweig -- Sexuality / Maire Mullins -- Gender / Sherry Ceniza -- Religion and the poet-prophet / David Kuebrich -- Science and pseudoscience / Harold Aspiz -- Nineteenth-century popular culture / Brett Barney -- Opera and other kinds of music / Kathy Rugoff -- Nineteenth-century visual culture / Ed Folsom -- Civil War / Luke Mancuso -- Nature / A. Jimmie Killingsworth -- Death and the afterlife / William J. Scheick -- Twentieth-Century mass media appearances / Andrew Jewell and Kenneth M. Price -- PART III: THE LITERARY CONTEXT: Language / Tyler Huffman -- Style / James Perrin Warren -- Literary contemporaries / Joann P. Krieg -- The poet's reception and legacy / Andrew C. Higgins -- PART IV: TEXTS: WORKS OF POETRY: The first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass / Edward Whitley -- "Song of Myself" / Kerry C. Larson -- "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" / James Dougherty -- "One of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" / Howard Nelson -- "Live Oak, with Moss," "Calamus," and "Children of Adam" / Susan Olson-Smith -- Civil War poems in "Drum-Taps" and "Memories of President Lincoln" / Ted Genoways -- PROSE WORKS: Democratic Vistas / Robert Leigh Davis -- Specimen Days / Martin G. Murray -- The prose writings: selected secondary sources / Donald D. Kummings. |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Kummings, Donald D.
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| ISBN |
9781405195515 (paperback) |
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1405195517 (paperback) |
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