Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work

by Kenneth Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Ed Folsom (University of Iowa)

• ISBN13: 9781405144681
• ISBN10: 1405144688
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works. + An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. + Weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works. + Focuses especially on Whitman's evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass. + Examines the material conditions and products of Whitman's "scripted life", including his original manuscripts. + Investigates Whitman's "life in print" - his belief that he could literally embody himself in his books. + Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman's work at www.whitmanarchive.org

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations of WhitmanÆs Works

Introduction

Growing up in the Age of Accelerating Print: Whitman as Printer, Journalist, Teacher, and Fiction Writer

öMany Manuscript Doings and Undoingsö: The Road toward Leaves of Grass

öI Was Chilled with the Cold Types and Cylinder and Wet Paper Between Usö: The First and Second Editions of Leaves of Grass

Intimate Script and the New American Bible: ôCalamusö and the Making of the 1860 Leaves of Grass

Blood-Stained Memoranda

Reconstructing Leaves of Grass, Restructuring a Life

Dying into Leaves

Appendix: What Whitman Left Us

References

Index

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