The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

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.

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.

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The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

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