The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman
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- Editor: Ezra Greenspan, University of South Carolina
- Date Published: September 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521448079
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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.
Read more- Contains essays addressing recent feminist, gay, and historicist thinking on Whitman
- Contains a precise Chronology of Whitman's life and a primary and secondary bibliography
- The essays are written in clear, nontechnical prose designed to be accessible to a general readership
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- Date Published: September 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521448079
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.351kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Chronology of Whitman's life
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 L. Bohan
10. Walt Whitman: precipitant of the modern Alan Trachtenberg
11. Borges's 'Song of myself' Fernando Alegría
Suggestions for further reading
Index
Whitman's writings.
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