The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

by Edited by Ezra Greenspan

• ISBN13: 9780521448079
• ISBN10: 0521448077
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Chronology

1. Introduction Ezra Greenspan

2. As If I Were With You: the performance of Whitman's poetry Stephen Railton

3. Fratricide and brotherly love: Whitman and the Civil War M. Wynn Thomas

4. Reading Whitman's post-war poetry James Perrin Warren

5. Politics and poetry: Leaves of Grass and the social crisis of the 1850s David S. Reynolds

6. Some remarks on the poetics of Participle-Loving Whitman Ezra Greenspan

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

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

9. I Sing the Body Electric: Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Dance Ruth Bohan

10. Walt Whitman: precipitant of the modern Alan Trachtenberg

11. Borges' Song of Myself, Fernando Alegria

Suggestions for further reading

Index.