Walt Whitman in context / edited by Joanna Levin, Chapman University, Edward Whitley, Lehigh University.
"Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which...
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Locations
- Long Island / William T. Walter
- Brooklyn and Manhattan / Karen Karbiener
- Camden and Philadelphia / William Pannapacker
- Washington, DC / Kenneth M. Price
- The American South / Matt Cohen
- Part II. Literary and artistic contexts
- Verse forms / Michael C. Cohen
- Periodical poetry / Ingrid I. Satelmajer
- Periodical fiction / Stephanie M .Blalock
- Journalism / Jason Stacy
- Oratory / Leslie Elizabeth Eckel
- Opera / Carmen Trammell Skaggs
- Performance and celebrity / David Haven Blake
- Visual arts and photography / Ruth L. Bohan
- Erotica / Paul Erickson
- Notebooks and manuscripts / Matt Miller
- Bookmaking / Nicole Gray
- The literary marketplace / David O. Dowling
- Transatlantic book distribution / Jessica DeSpain
- Part III. Cultural and political contexts
- Transcendentalism / Regina Schober
- Philosophy / Stephen John Mack
- Bohemianism / Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley
- Gender / Maire Mullins
- Sexuality / Jay Grossman
- Politics / Kerry Larson
- Imperialism and globalization / Walter Grünzweig
- Nineteenth-century religion / Brian Yothers
- Civil War / Peter Coviello
- Reconstruction / Martin T. Buinicki
- Death and mourning / Adam Bradford
- Slavery and abolition / Ivy G. Wilson
- Native American and immigrant cultures / Rachel Rubinstein
- The rank and file / Jerome Loving
- Romanticism / Edward S. Cutler
- The natural world / Christine Gerhardt
- Science and medicine / Lindsay Tuggle
- Part IV. Reception and legacy
- Disciples / Michael Robertson
- Influence in the United States / Sascha Pöhlmann
- Impact on the World / Ed Folsom.