| Description |
x, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : breaking bounds / Betsy Erkkila -- Confusion of tongues / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Whitman drunk / Michael Warner -- Whitman and problems of the vernacular / Jonathan Arac -- Whitman, syntax, and political theory / Wai Chee Dimock -- His America, our America : Jose Marti reads Whitman / Sylvia Molloy -- "In loftiest spheres": Whitman's visionary feminism / Vivian R. Pollak -- Whitman's "Whoever you are holding me now in hand": remarks on the endlessly repeated rediscovery of the incommensurability of the person / Allen Grossman -- Errata sobre la erotica, or, The elision of Whitman's body / Jorge Salessi and Jose Quiroga -- Homosexuality and utopian discourse in American poetry / Tom Yingling ; with an introduction by Robyn Wiegman -- America on canvas, America in manuscript : imaging the democracy / Elizabeth Johns -- Whitman's lesson of the city / Alan Trachtenberg -- Making capital : war, labor, and Whitman in Washington, D.C. / Katherine Kinney -- Whitman's Calamus photographs / Ed Folsom -- "When the world strips down and rouges up": redressing Whitman / Michael Davidson -- "For America, for all the earth": Walt Whitman as an international(ist) poet / Walter Grunzweig -- Epilogue : Whitman's centennial and the state of Whitman studies / Jay Grossman. |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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| Added Author |
Erkkila, Betsy, 1944-
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Grossman, Jay.
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| ISBN |
0195093496 (acid-free paper) |
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019509350X (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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