...Harold K. Bush, Jr. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity . By David Haven Blake. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2006. xv, 251 pp. $35.00. Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle . By Andrew Lawson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press...

... Long! Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death. By Harold Aspiz. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xi, 294 pp. $42.50. To Walt Whitman, America. By Kenneth M. Price. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Caro- lina Press. 2004. ix, 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Is close reading a dying art...

... Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo- macy both Freneau and Barlow, in search of a ‘‘usable past’’ for the incipient...

...Russ Castronovo Duke University Press 2007 The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics . By Philipp Schweighauser. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2006. viii, 262 pp. $59.95. Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920...

...Douglas Guerra Guerra's essay examines the overlapping discourses of avatar found in Milton Bradley's The Checkered Game of Life and Walt Whitman's “Song of Myself.” Because an avatar is defined by action, the essay begins by tracing the operational dynamics of the figure in Bradley's game...

...Elizabeth Young © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic. By Julia A. Stern. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2010. xv, 330 pp. $45.00. Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862. By Ted Genoways. Berkeley...

...Sean Metzger Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection . By Ehlers Nadine . Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 185 pp. Cloth , $70.00 ; paper , $25.00 . American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop...

...Christy L. Pottroff Abstract In 1860, Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman signed nearly identical contracts with Boston-based publishers Thayer and Eldridge. This article tells the story of Jacobs’s and Whitman’s intersecting journeys to and from Thayer and Eldridge, and considers what this convergence...

...Faith Barrett Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville . By Spengemann William C. . Notre Dame, Ind. : Univ. of Notre Dame Press . 2010 . xv, 226 pp. Paper, $28.00 . Winds of Will: Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Thought...

...Mark Noble American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet . By Whitley Edward . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2010 . xiv, 248 pp. $49.95 . Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries . By Vendler Helen . Cambridge : Harvard...

.... This biography will be indispensable as the record of Walt Whitman as he would have been known to his contemporaries, both friends and foes. Loving’s quiet art is that of the biographical Balzac, wherein character emerges gradu...

... for further work on the literary and cultural significance of the Civil War. Matthew Conner, University of Illinois, Urbana The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume I: 1834–1846. Ed. Herbert...

... The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume II: 1846–1848. Ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas Noverr, and Edward Recchia. New York: Peter Lang. 2003. xxviii, 501 pp. $59.95. Walt Whitman warned against reading Leaves of Grass ‘‘without first carefully tallying the preparatory background...

... from the nineteenth century. Taking the writings of Walt Whitman as both an example and a theoretical foil, I argue that the use of these tools can amplify historical differences in word use that are relatively unimportant to close reading, influencing what sorts of texts we read in ways...

... . By Sean Ross Meehan. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2008. xi, 264 pp. $39.95. William Cullen Bryant: Author of America . By Gilbert H. Muller. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. ix, 410 pp. $30.00. Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples . By Michael Robertson. Princeton...

...Mark Noble Noble's essay examines Walt Whitman's investment in an often radical materialization of subjectivity, which both underlies his earliest claims to reinvent embodied experience and brings his poetic project to crisis. In the 1855 Leaves , Whitman's enthusiasm for the popular science of his...

... philosophical and literary discourses with an emphasis on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist philosophy and Walt Whitman’s poetry. Features associated with networks, such as relationality, reciprocal interaction, decentralized self-organization, and emergent properties significantly shaped US thought...

.... Like Walt Whitman, who was also fascinated by the erotics of patriotism, De Forest explores the durability of local passions, of sectionalism and sex, in the face of constitutional idealism, the Unionism that became the hegemonic feeling-state decided by the Civil War. Through discussion of Miss...

..., continuously, and on the move. Through readings of the manuscripts of John Washington, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman, this article demonstrates how the pencil facilitated such exploration by configuring language, instrument, and corporeal gesture in ways that suited the modernizing nation. The essay draws...

... before turning to hospital accounts by Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman that adopt the trope of portraiture in order to make soldiers’ suffering legible to a wider audience. This essay argues that these ekphrastic accounts make visible not only soldiers’ suffering but also the act of observing...