Leaves of grass : the sesquicentennial essays

Leaves of grass : the sesquicentennial essays / edited and with an introduction by Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Belasco, Susan, 1950-, Folsom, Ed, 1947-, Price, Kenneth M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892. > Leaves of grass.
Leaves of grass (Whitman, Walt)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
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Table of Contents:
  • What we're still learning about the 1855 Leaves of grass 150 years later / Ed Folsom Foregrounding the first edition
  • Whitman, Marx, and the American 1848 / Betsy Erkkila
  • United States and States united: Whitman's national vision in 1855 / M. Wynn Thomas
  • Reading the first edition
  • "One goodshaped and wellhung man": accentuated sexuality and the uncertain authorship of the frontispiece to the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass / Ted Genoways
  • Whitman at night: "The sleepers" in 1855 / Alan Trachtenberg
  • Complaints from the spotted hawk: flights and feathers in Whitman's 1855 Leaves of grass / Thomas C. Gannon
  • Contextualizing the first edition
  • Leaves of grass and the poetry marketplace of antebellum America / Susan Belasco
  • Leaves of grass (1855) and the cities of Whitman's memory / William Pannapacker
  • The lost Negress of "Song of Myself" and the jolly young wenches of Civil War Washington / Kenneth M. Price
  • "Bringing help for the sick": Whitman and prophetic biography / Vivian R. Pollak
  • Aftereffects
  • The visionary and the visual in Whitman's poetics / M. Jimmie Killingsworth
  • Walt Whitman as an eminent Victorian / Lawrence Buell
  • "To reach the workmen direct": Horace Traubel and the work of the 1855 edition of Leaves of grass / Matt Cohen
  • "Profession of the calamus": Whitman, Eliot, Matthiessen / Jay Grossman
  • Whitman and the Cold War: the centenary celebration of Leaves of grass in Eastern Europe / Walter Grunzweig
  • The Life behind the book
  • "A Southerner as soon as a Northerner": writing Walt Whitman's biography / Jerome Loving
  • Why I write cultural biography: the backgrounds of Walt Whitman's America / David S. Reynolds
  • A poet responds
  • "Strong is your hold": my encounters with Whitman / Galway Kinnell
  • The critical response
  • The first Leaves of grass: a bibliography / Donald D. Kummings.

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