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

Incluye bibliografía (p. 566-587).

Introduction / Donald d. Kummings -- PART I: THE LIFE: Whitman´s life and work, 1819-92 / Gregory Eiselein -- PART II: THE CULTURAL CONTEXT: Journalism / Douglas A. Noverr -- The city / William Pannpacker -- Labor and laborers / M. Wynn Thomas -- Politics / Gary Wihl -- Oratory / J. R. LeMaster -- Slavery and race / Martin Klammer -- Nation and identity / Eldrid Herrington -- A theory of organic democracy / Stephen John Mack -- Imperialism / Walter Grunzweig -- Sexuality / Maire Mullins -- Gender / Sherry Ceniza -- Religion and the poet-prophet / David Kuebrich -- Science and pseudoscience / Harold Aspiz -- Nineteenth-century popular culture / Brett Barney -- Opera and other kinds of music / Kathy Rugoff -- Nineteenth-century visual culture / Ed Folsom -- Civil War / Luke Mancuso -- Nature / A. Jimmie Killingsworth -- Death and the afterlife / William J. Scheick -- Twentieth-Century mass media appearances / Andrew Jewell and Kenneth M. Price -- PART III: THE LITERARY CONTEXT: Language / Tyler Huffman -- Style / James Perrin Warren -- Literary contemporaries / Joann P. Krieg -- The poet´s reception and legacy / Andrew C. Higgins -- PART IV: TEXTS: WORKS OF POETRY: The first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass / Edward Whitley -- ´Song of Myself´ / Kerry C. Larson -- ´Crossing Brooklyn Ferry´ / James Dougherty -- ´One of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking´ / Howard Nelson -- ´Live Oak, with Moss,´ ´Calamus,´ and ´Children of Adam´ / Susan Olson-Smith -- Civil War poems in ´Drum-Taps´ and ´Memories of President Lincoln´ / Ted Genoways -- PROSE WORKS: Democratic Vistas / Robert Leigh Davis -- Specimen Days / Martin G. Murray -- The prose writings: selected secondary sources / Donald D. Kummings