Walt Whitman

"list of illustrations
list of contributors
chronology of whitmans life
1 introducti
n_ ezra greensp
n_2 “as if i were with you”-the performance of whitmans poetry
stephen railt
n_3 fratricide and brotherly love:whitman and the civil war
m.wynn thomas
4 reading whitmans postwar poetry
james jperrin warr
n_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 greensp
n_7 “being a woman...i wish to give my own view”:some nineteenth-century womens 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”:isdora duncan,whitman,and the dance
. ruth l.boh
n_10 walt whitman:precipitant of the modern
alan trachtenberg
11 borgess “song of myself”
fernando aleria
suggestions for further reading
index
whitmans writings"