A Companion to Walt Whitman

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Donald 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.
  • Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students
  • Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman’s work, and of the experimental nature of his writing
  • Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography
 

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
Works of Poetry
456
Song of Myself
471
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
484
Live Oak with Moss Calamus and Children of Adam
508
Civil War Poems in DrumTaps and Memories of President Lincoln
522
Democratic Vistas
540
Specimen Days
553
Selected Secondary Sources
566
Index
588
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About the author (2009)

Donald D. Kummings is a Professor of English at the Parkside Campus of the University of Wisconsin. His books on Whitman include Walt Whitman, 1940-1975: A Reference Guide (1982), Approaches to Teaching Whitman‘s ‘Leaves of Grass’ (1990) and with J.R. LeMaster Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia (1998). In 1990, his collection of poems, ;The Open Road Trip ;was awarded the Posner Poetry Prize by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. In 1997, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named him Wisconsin Professor of the Year.

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