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A companion to Walt Whitman

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. Timed to contribute to the year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Whitman's masterpiece, Leaves of Grass (First Edition, 1855). 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 t
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Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, ©2006
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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
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