Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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The Sesquicentennial

Essays Edited and with an introduction by susan belasco, ed folsom, ? kenneth m. price

University of Nebraska Press : Lincoln and London

"Whitman at Night: `The Sleepers' in 1855" was originally published in an abbreviated form in the Yale Review 94, no. 2 (2006).

? 2007 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leaves of grass: the sesquicentennial essays / edited and with an introduction by Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8032-6000-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8032-6000-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Whitman, Walt, 1819?1892. Leaves of grass. I. Belasco, Susan, 1950? II. Folsom, Ed, 1947? III. Price, Kenneth M., 1954? ps3238.l34 2007 811'.3 -- dc22 2006037489

Set in itc New Baskerville by Bob Reitz. Designed by A. Shahan.

For James E. Miller Jr. : Whitman scholar, mentor, friend

Contents

List of Illustrations

x

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

susan belasco, ed folsom,

and kenneth m. price

xiii

Abbreviations

xix

1. What We're Still Learning about the 1855 Leaves of Grass 150 Years Later

ed folsom

1

pa r t 1 : Foregrounding the First Edition

2. Whitman, Marx, and the American 1848

betsy erkkila

35

3. United States and States United: Whitman's

National Vision in 1855

m. wynn thomas

62

pa r t 2 : Reading the First Edition

4. "One goodshaped and wellhung man": Accentuated Sexuality and the Uncertain Authorship of the Frontispiece to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass

ted genoways

87

5. Whitman at Night: "The Sleepers" in 1855

alan trachtenberg

124

6. Complaints from the Spotted Hawk: Flights and Feathers in Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass

thomas c. gannon

141

pa r t 3 : Contextualizing the First Edition

7. Leaves of Grass and the Poetry Marketplace of Antebellum America

susan belasco

179

8. Leaves of Grass (1855) and the Cities of Whitman's Memory

william pannapacker

199

9. The Lost Negress of "Song of Myself" and the Jolly Young Wenches of Civil War Washington

kenneth m. price

224

10. "Bringing help for the sick": Whitman and Prophetic Biography

vivian r. pollak

244

pa r t 4 : Aftereffects

11. The Visionary and the Visual in Whitman's Poetics

m. jimmie killingsworth

269

12. Walt Whitman as an Eminent Victorian

lawrence buell

282

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