A companion to Walt Whitman / edited by Donald D. Kummings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kummings, Donald D.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 40.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Whitman, Walt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Comprising 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

Contents:

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 Culture

18 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

33 Democratic Vistas34 Specimen Days; 35 The Prose Writings: Selected Secondary Sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 566-587) and index.

ISBN:

9786610747863

9781782685067

1782685065

9781280747861

1280747862

9781405165389

1405165383

9780470996812

0470996811

9781405154727

1405154721

OCLC:

184983671