List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Chronology of Whitmans Life
1 Introduction
EZRA GREENSPAN
2 “As If I Were With You”-The Performance of Whitmans poetry
STEPHEN RAILTON
3 Fratricide and Brotherly Love:Whitman and the Civil War
M.WYNN THOMAS
4 Reading Whitmans Postwar Poetry
JAMES JPERRIN WARREN
5 Politics and Poetry:Leaves of Grass and the Social Crisis of the 1850s
DAVID S.REYNOLDS
6 Some Remarks on the Poetics of “Participle-Loving Whitman”
EZRA GREENSPAN
7 “Being a Woman...I Wish to Give My Own View”:Some
nineteenth-Century Womens Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass
SHERRY CENIZA
8 Appearing in Print:Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass
ED FOLSOM
9 “I sing the Body Electric”:Isdora Duncan,Whitman,and the Dance
RUTH L.BOHAN
10 Walt Whitman:Precipitant of the Modern
ALAN TRACHTENBERG
11 Borgess “Song of Myself”
FERNANDO ALERIA
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
Whitmans Writings