The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

by Edited by Ezra Greenspan

• ISBN13: 9780521443432
• ISBN10: 0521443431
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, these essays address a wide range of contemporary issues in his life and art through varying approaches. The volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Chronology of Whitman's life

Introduction Ezra Greenspan

'As if I were with you' - the performance of Whitman's poetry

Fratricide and brotherly love: Whitman and the Civil War

Reading Whitman's post-war poetry

Politics and poetry: Leaves of Grass and the social crisis of the 1850s

Some remarks on the poetics of 'Participle-loving Whitman'

'Being a woman ... I wish to give my own view': some nineteenth-century women's responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass Sherry Ceniza

Appearing in print: illustrations of the self in Leaves of Grass Ed Folsom

'I sing the body electric': Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the dance

Walt Whitman: precipitant of the modern Alan Trachtenberg

Borges's 'Song of myself' Fernando Alegr<$$$>a

Suggestions for further reading

Index

Whitman's writings

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