...Ellen Weinauer Duke University Press 2007 Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau . By Peter J. Bellis. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. vii, 221 pp. $ 39.95. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class...

.... Grant’s Memoirs,William Sherman’s Memoirs, Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches, Walt Whitman’s Drum Taps, William Faulkner’s AFable, and documents from various Geneva Conventions), though he also offers substantial readings of several canonical texts, most notably Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge...

...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...

... 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...

...Jason Stacy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Transcendentalism: A History . By Philip F. Gura. New York: Hill and Wang. 2007. xv, 385 pp. Cloth; $27.50; paper, $15.00. Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman...

... of work she does, it is crucial to point out the conspicuous absence of literary criticism that engages the complexity, scope, and influence of religious aesthetic forms, an absence which Imagining Grace shyly intimates. Christopher C. Freeburg, University of Chicago The Erotic Whitman. By Vivian R...

.... Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson. By Daneen Wardrop. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. vii, 169 pp. $58.95. In Bridge, to finesse means to draw your opponent’s card into play at a moment...

...Jack Kerkering Duke University Press 2001 Jack ‘‘Of Me and of Mine The Music of Racial Kerkering Identity in Whitman and Lanier, Dvorˇák and DuBois With Reconstruction entering its tenth year in 1875, plans were underway in Philadelphia...

...Robert K. Nelson; Kenneth M. Price Duke University Press 2001 Robert K. Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Nelson and Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Kenneth M. Question of Whitman Price In 1908 William Sloane Kennedy, one of Walt Whit- man’s...

...Peter Coviello Duke University Press 2001 Peter Intimate Nationality: Anonymity and Attachment Coviello in Whitman ‘‘Here is adhesiveness—it is not previously fashioned— it is apropos; Do you know what it is, as you pass...

... 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...

...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...

...Marianne Noble Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism . By Jane F. Thrailkill. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2007. 312 pp. $45.00. American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman . By Max Cavitch. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press...

...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...

...Audrey Raden The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America . By Michael C. Cohen Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2015 . 277 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; e-book available. Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman...

... . By Harris Feinsod . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . xxiii, 413 pp. Cloth, $65.00 ; e-book available. Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño . By Jeffrey Lawrence . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . x, 298 pp. Cloth, $39.95 ; e...

...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...