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| Genre/Form: | Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman; Walt Whitman |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald D Kummings |
| ISBN: | 9781405120937 1405120932 |
| OCLC Number: | 60669055 |
| Description: | xiii, 607 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 40. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Donald D. Kummings. |
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