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Title:
Walt Whitman / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.
Author:
Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]

©2019
Call Number:
PS3238 .W3547 2019
Edition:
[First edition].
ISBN:
9781642652758
Series:
Critical insights

Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xxxv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Walt Whitman and me / David S. Reynolds -- Biography of Walt Whitman / Robert C. Evans -- Clerk Trouble: Masculinity, consumerism, and Whitman's print culture / Jason Stacy -- Recent editions of Whitman's poetry: A survey / Robert C. Evans -- "Closer yet I approach you": Acts of crossing in Whitman's Leaves of Grass / Joyce E. Kelley -- Lucifer in Leaves of Grass / Daniel Mackay -- Walt Whitman in his social context / Christopher Baker -- What Walt Whitman means to the Negro / Kelly Miller -- "Whitman: The poet-liberator of woman" / Mabel MacCoy Irwin -- Early responses to Whitman's homoeroticism / W.C. Rivers and anonymous reviewers -- Walt Whitman and the "homophile" movement in the 1950s: Evidence in the archives of the "one institute" / Robert C. Evans -- Rockwell Kent's illustrations for Leaves of Grass / Robert C. Evans -- Singing the body eclectic: The corporeal in Whitman's poetry / Nicolas Tredell -- "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there": Masculinity, suffering and the presence in Whitman / Nicolas Tredell -- Walt Whitman, immigration, and the music of democracy / Brian Yothers -- Reflections on Walt Whitman / Karen Karbiener.
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