03716nam 2200697 a 450 991082533170332120200520144314.097866107478639781782685067178268506597812807478611280747862978140516538914051653839780470996812047099681197814051547271405154721(CKB)1000000000341983(EBL)284262(SSID)ssj0000126256(PQKBManifestationID)11135419(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126256(PQKBWorkID)10031234(PQKB)11618001(Au-PeEL)EBL284262(CaPaEBR)ebr10159104(CaONFJC)MIL74786(MiAaPQ)EBC284262(OCoLC)184983671(Perlego)2748932(EXLCZ)99100000000034198320050613d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to Walt Whitman /edited by Donald D. Kummings1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwell Pub.c20061 online resource (626 p.)Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;40Description based upon print version of record.9781405120937 1405120932 Includes bibliographical references (p. 566-587) and index.A Companion to Walt Whitman; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations of Standard Whitman Works; Introduction; Part I: The Life; 1 Whitman's Life and Work, 1819-92; Part II: The Cultural Context; 2 Journalism; 3 The City; 4 Labor and Laborers; 5 Politics; 6 Oratory; 7 Slavery and Race; 8 Nation and Identity; 9 A Theory of Organic Democracy; 10 Imperialism; 11 Sexuality; 12 Gender; 13 Religion and the Poet-Prophet; 14 Science and Pseudoscience; 15 Nineteenth-century Popular Culture; 16 Opera and Other Kinds of Music; 17 Nineteenth-century Visual Culture18 Civil War19 Nature; 20 Death and the Afterlife; 21 Twentieth-century Mass Media Appearances; Part III: The Literary Context; 22 Language; 23 Style; 24 Literary Contemporaries; 25 The Publishing History of Leaves of Grass; 26 The Poet's Reception and Legacy; Part IV: Texts; Works of Poetry; 27 The First (1855) Edition of Leaves of Grass; 28 ''Song of Myself''; 29 ''Crossing Brooklyn Ferry''; 30 ''Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking''; 31 ''Live Oak, with Moss,'' ''Calamus,'' and ''Children of Adam''; 32 Civil War Poems in ''Drum-Taps'' and ''Memories of President Lincoln''; Prose Works33 Democratic Vistas34 Specimen Days; 35 The Prose Writings: Selected Secondary Sources; IndexComprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America's greatest poets.Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to studentsDesigned to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman's work, and of the experimental nature of his writingIncludes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliographyBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;40.811/.3Kummings Donald D930734MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825331703321A companion to Walt Whitman2093480UNINA