...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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... mindful and generous as we inhabit the conflicted geographies of Indian Country. Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-024 Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity. By David Haven Blake. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2006. xv, 251 pp. $35.00. Walt...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Whitman blossoms with the more public Whitman of the 1870s and 1880s, available from a variety of letters, journal entries, publi- cations, and newspaper reports. Loving gathers widely and makes good use...

... 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 American nation state, projected a nativist national imaginary upon the Aztecs...

...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...

...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...

...Alan Golding © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott . By George B. Handley. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xi, 441 pp. $39.95. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959...

...Mark Scroggins © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery . By Helen Vendler. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. 95 pp. Cloth, $32.95; paper, $14.95. The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry...

...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...

.... 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 and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2009. vii, 210 pp. $24.95. Horace Greeley’s “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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...