LEADER 03716nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910825331703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786610747863 010 $a9781782685067 010 $a1782685065 010 $a9781280747861 010 $a1280747862 010 $a9781405165389 010 $a1405165383 010 $a9780470996812 010 $a0470996811 010 $a9781405154727 010 $a1405154721 035 $a(CKB)1000000000341983 035 $a(EBL)284262 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126256 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135419 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126256 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10031234 035 $a(PQKB)11618001 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL284262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159104 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL74786 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC284262 035 $a(OCoLC)184983671 035 $a(Perlego)2748932 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000341983 100 $a20050613d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to Walt Whitman /$fedited by Donald D. Kummings 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (626 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v40 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781405120937 311 08$a1405120932 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 566-587) and index. 327 $aA 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 Culture 327 $a18 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 Works 327 $a33 Democratic Vistas34 Specimen Days; 35 The Prose Writings: Selected Secondary Sources; Index 330 $aComprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America's greatest poets.Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to studentsDesigned to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman's work, and of the experimental nature of his writingIncludes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v40. 676 $a811/.3 701 $aKummings$b Donald D$0930734 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825331703321 996 $aA companion to Walt Whitman$92093480 997 $aUNINA