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Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter 2009
No full textWalt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter 2009
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 27, no. 1/2
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 27, no. 1/2
"That I could look ... on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning": Walt Whitman's Anti-Gallows Writing and the Appeal to Christian Sympathy
Get PDFTraces “Whitman’s involvement in the anti-capital punishment movement . . . from his impassioned anti-gallows editorials for various periodicals to his transference of these expressions” into Leaves of Grass, “especially in terms of his arguments for sympathy for condemned criminals and his use of the rhetoric of ‘Christian sympathy,’ a rhetoric very common in antebellum anti-gallows arguments.
"Hours Continuing Long" as Whitman's Rewriting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
No full textAnalyzes Whitman’s 1860 “Calamus” number 9 poem, “Hours continuing long,” as an unconventional sonnet that responds thematically and structurally to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune”), and that echoes Shakespeare’s sonnet while simultaneously reshaping his personal poem about same-sex love into a “political protest against having to suffer, like countless others, in silence.
Tolerance and Elimination in Whitman's "Land of all Ideas": A Complex Prose Manuscript and a Previously Unknown Letter Fragment
Get PDFReproduces a previously unpublished Reconstruction-era Whitman prose manuscript, with, on one side, two paragraphs of a partial draft of the first installment of Whitman’s New York Weekly Graphic series, “’Tis But Ten Years Since,” and on the other side a fragment of a previously unknown letter; analyzes ways that the manuscript allows us to understand Whitman’s attack on extremism, whether it originated in the North or South
Drum-Taps: Revisions and Reconciliation
Get PDFExamines the 1865 Drum-Taps and “Sequel to Drum-Taps” in comparison to the 1871 “Drum-Taps” sequence in Leaves of Grass, tracking Whitman’s growing “participation in a Northern liberal turn toward nostalgia” in the aftermath of the Civil War, a “reflective rather than restorative” nostalgia that erases ideological difference between North and South in order to celebrate “reconciliatory nation-building,” silencing the issues of slavery and sedition that generated the war
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 3
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 3
Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 3
No full textFront Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 26, no. 3
