A Companion to Walt WhitmanDonald D. Kummings John Wiley & Sons, 2009 M10 19 - 624 pages Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets.
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Contents
Whitmans Life and Work 181992 | 11 |
Gregory Eiselein | 24 |
The City | 42 |
Labor and Laborers | 60 |
Politics | 76 |
Slavery and Race | 101 |
Nation and Identity | 122 |
A Theory of Organic Democracy | 136 |
Death and the Afterlife | 325 |
Twentiethcentury Mass Media Appearances | 341 |
The Literary Context | 359 |
Style | 377 |
Literary Contemporaries | 392 |
The Publishing History of Leaves of Grass | 409 |
The Poets Reception and Legacy | 439 |
Higgins | 454 |
Imperialism | 151 |
Sexuality | 164 |
Gender | 180 |
Religion and the PoetProphet | 197 |
Science and Pseudoscience | 216 |
Nineteenthcentury Popular Culture | 233 |
Opera and Other Kinds of Music | 257 |
Nineteenthcentury Visual Culture | 272 |
Civil War | 290 |
Luke Mancuso | 310 |
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