Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Ezra Greenspan -- "As if I were with you": the performance of Whitman's poetry / Stephen Railton -- Fratricide and brotherly love: Whitman and the Civil War / M. Wynn Thomas -- Reading Whitman's postwar poetry / James Perrin Warren -- Politics and poetry: Leaves of grass and the social crisis of the 1850's / David S. Reynolds -- Some remarks on the poetics of "participle-loving Whitman" / Ezra Greenspan -- "Being a woman ... I wish to give my own view": some nineteenth-century women's responses to the 1860 Leaves of grass / Sherry Ceniza -- Appearing in print: illustrations of the self in Leaves of grass / Ed Folsom -- "I sing the body electric": Isadora Duncan, Whitman, and the dance / Ruth L. Bohan -- Walt Whitman: precipitant of the modern / Alan Trachtenberg -- Borges's "Song of myself" / Fernando Alegria.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A collection of critical essays on the great 19th century American poet redefines the life and art of Whitman in contemporary terms, exploring such issues as modernism, feminism, and the poet's changing style in later years. Includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Walt Whitman
COVER TITLE
Cover Title
Cambridge companion to Whitman
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892-- Critique et interprétation.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Whitman, Walt,(1819-1892)-- Critique et interprétation.
Whitman, Walt,1819-1892.
Whitman, Walt.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literatura norte-americana (crítica e interpretação)