The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

doi:10.1017/CCOL0521443431

The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords for such examination. The authors of these essays address a wide range of issues befitting a poet of his stature and ambiguity: Whitman and photography, Whitman and feminist scholarship, Whitman and modernism, Whitman and the poetics of address, Whitman and the poetics of present participles, Whitman and Borges, Whitman and Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Civil War, Whitman and the politics of his era, and Whitman and the changing nature of his style in his later years. Addressed to an audience of students and general readers and written in a nontechnical prose designed to promote accessibility to the study of Whitman, this volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.

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Frontmatter
pp i-xiv
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1 - Introduction
pp 1-6
- By Ezra Greenspan
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2 - “As If I Were With You”
pp 7-26
- By Stephen Railton
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3 - Fratricide and Brotherly Love
pp 27-44
Whitman and the Civil War
- By M. Wynn Thomas
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4 - Reading Whitman’s Postwar Poetry
pp 45-65
- By James Perrin Warren
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5 - Politics and Poetry
pp 66-91
Leaves of Grass and the Social Crisis of the 1850s
- By David S. Reynolds
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6 - Some Remarks on the Poetics of “Participle-Loving Whitman”
pp 92-109
- By Ezra Greenspan
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7 - “Being a Woman ... I Wish to Give My Own View”
pp 110-134
Some Nineteenth-Century Women's Responses to the I 860 Leaves of Grass
- By Sherry Ceniza
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8 - Appearing in Print
pp 135-165
Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass
- By Ed Folsom
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9 - “I Sing the Body Electric”
pp 166-193
Isadora Duncan, Whitman, and the Dance
- By Ruth L. Bohan
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10 - Walt Whitman
pp 194-207
Precipitant of the Modern
- By Alan Trachtenberg
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11 - Borge's "Song of Myself"
pp 208-220
- By Fernando Alegría
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Suggestions for further reading
pp 221-226
- By Ezra Greenspan
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Index
pp 227-234
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Series List
pp 235-235
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Frontmatter
pp i-xiv

1 - Introduction
pp 1-6

2 - “As If I Were With You”
pp 7-26

3 - Fratricide and Brotherly Love
pp 27-44

4 - Reading Whitman’s Postwar Poetry
pp 45-65

5 - Politics and Poetry
pp 66-91

6 - Some Remarks on the Poetics of “Participle-Loving Whitman”
pp 92-109

7 - “Being a Woman ... I Wish to Give My Own View”
pp 110-134

8 - Appearing in Print
pp 135-165

9 - “I Sing the Body Electric”
pp 166-193

10 - Walt Whitman
pp 194-207

11 - Borge's "Song of Myself"
pp 208-220

Suggestions for further reading
pp 221-226

Index
pp 227-234

Series List
pp 235-235

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