...William Pannapacker; Paul Crumbley Duke University Press 2009 4  Whitman and Dickinson William Pannapacker and Paul Crumbley This year continues the surge in Whitman scholarship prompted by the sesquicentennial in 2005 of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Work proceeds...

...Amanda Gailey; Jane Donahue Eberwein © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 4  Whitman and Dickinson Amanda Gailey and Jane Donahue Eberwein The sesquicentennial of the third edition of Leaves of Grass occurred in 2010, and with it a number of essays were published that examine...

... in a broad range of visual modes of representation ; Carmen Trammell Skaggs s Opera ( pp. 108 16), on how the lens and language of opera influenced Leaves of Grass; and David Haven Blake s Performance and Celebrity ( pp. 117 26), on Whitman as a poet-celebrity who championed the role that readers...

...William Pannapacker; Paul Crumbley Duke University Press 2008 4  Whitman and Dickinson William Pannapacker and Paul Crumbley There was a continued surge in Whitman-related publications in the year after the 150th anniversary of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, in the form...

...William Pannapacker; Paul Crumbley Duke University Press 2007 4  Whitman and Dickinson William Pannapacker and Paul Crumbley The sesquicentennial of the first edition of Leaves of Grass saw consid- erable growth in the number of scholarly publications on Whitman, particularly...

..., and Dickinson. Wardrop’s monograph joins two others—Stephen John Mack’s The Pragmatic Whitman: Reimagining American Democracy and Beth Jensen’s Leaving the M/other: Whitman, Kristeva, and Leaves of Grass—for a strong showing this year in philosophical, psychological, and political criticism...

...William Pannapacker; Tyler Hoffman Duke University Press 2011 4  Whitman and Dickinson William Pannapacker and Tyler Hoffman The surge in scholarship prompted by the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass has been succeeded by notable...

...William Pannapacker; Paul Crumbley Duke University Press 2010 4  Whitman and Dickinson William Pannapacker and Paul Crumbley The surge in publication on Walt Whitman that began with the sesquicentennial of the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 2005 has...

... considers how as early as the Leaves Walt was beginning to show his resentment at having to present a fake self in public and conceal his real self, and how, with the Calamus poems in Leaves of Grass ( ), Whitman was both conceal[ing] a forbidden love in his poems and escaping from the su ocating urban...

.... Einboden suggests that the “Hebraic roots of Leaves” may best be made clear not by looking back to Whitman’s influences but by looking American Literary Scholarship (2013) doi 10.1215/00659142-2870640 © 2015 by Duke University Press 56 Whitman and Dickinson...

..., 1855–1892, A New Edition, ed. Gary Schmidgall (St. Martin’s). The selection focuses on the first three editions of Leaves of Grass, which, according to Schmidgall and the overwhelming majority of Whitman’s critics, contain Whitman’s strongest poems. Also included are prefaces...

... touchstone, Henry Thoreau, . . . sets his sights both on cosmic process and on a shape called I, where shape is a Whitmanian term of art it names a formation less stable than entity, less mentalistic than concept, more haptic than literary figure. Bennett finds in Leaves of Grass an I who is both...

... on Brother George and His Fifty-first New York Volunteers: An Uncollected New York Times Article’’ (pp. 65–70); Ed Folsom and Kendall Reed’s ‘‘An Unpublished Specimen Days Manu- script Fragment’’ (pp. 71–72); Gary Schmidgall’s ‘‘1855: A Stop-Press Revision which reports a rare variant in the 1855 Leaves...

..., close readings of key poems, laid out in chronological order, beginning with the early poems and proceeding through each edition of Leaves of Grass. The focus on death is itself occasionally blurred by the close read- ing method, which obligates Aspiz to include full overviews of major poems...

... A. Noverr and Edward J. Recchia (Peter Lang), provides us with a look into a period of Whitman’s work more productive and focused than any other before the publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855. During the years covered, in which he served as editor for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle...

... of the current volume establish the biographical context for Whitman s career as a journalist, and the writ- ings themselves reveal the depth of his involvement in that profession. As the editors tell us, by the time he published the first edition of Leaves in 1855, Whitman, at the age of thirty-six, had...

... the story of Whitman’s correspondence with Sholes, a contemporary admirer of the poet’s work in the hospitals and his accounts of the Civil War. Another ardent defender of the poet was the sales agent E. C. Walker of Norway, Iowa, whose promotion of Leaves of Grass comes to light in Ed Folsom’s...

... of Leaves of Grass (Hedra). Europe: Revue littéraire mensuelle’s special issue (no. 990) on Whitman features over a dozen pieces in French by international scholars, many of which examine Whitman’s reception in different nations. Huang Zong- ying includes two essays on Whitman in Essays on the Study...

... on AmLS 2000. He had begun his association with this series, overseeing both copyediting and production, when he became managing editor at Duke University Press in 1983; and he continued to do the copyediting after leaving the press in 1990 to freelance. Bob and I never met. During the early years...

... to a wealthy invalid, has a chance to return to work. Her husband threatens to leave her if she goes back to the office. Caught between the rock and hard place of love and independence and now with much greater understanding of what it is to clip the wings of a caring woman via domestic bondage...