| Description |
xiv, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Note |
Spine title: Cambridge companion to Whitman. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Greenspan, Ezra.
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| Added Title |
Walt Whitman |
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Cambridge companion to Whitman |
| ISBN |
0521448077 (pbk.) |
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0521443431 (hardback) |
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