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Reynolds, David S., ed., Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The 150th Anniversary Edition [review]
"Terrible, Beautiful Days": The Semifictional Whitman
Suggests Whitman's problematic relationship to fiction, both as a writer of fiction and as a character in fiction, and discusses the fictional Whitman in works by Cameron Rogers, John Erskine, Elizabeth Corbett, Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams, and others, with a focus on Whitman's often iconographic appearance in Civil War stories by William Douglas O'Connor, Fred Chappell, Chris Adrian, Allan Gurganus, and Richard Selzer
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2005
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2005
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 22, no. 4
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 22, no. 4
Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter, Gavin Arthur, and The Circle of Sex
Discusses Gavin Arthur's claim that Edward Carpenter told him about having sex with Whitman, and examines Carpenter's views on Whitman's sexuality; concludes that Arthur's memoir is "a truthful record of his conversations with Edward Carpenter.
Civil War Nursing Narratives: Whitman's Memoranda During the War and Eroticism
Demonstrates how Whitman's Memoranda "shares with the nursing narratives that preceded his work some important aspects of style and tone," and offers a "cultural assessment" of Whitman's book "within the context of those previous memoirs, utilizing themes of democracy, the typical American, motherhood, and . . . the eroticism that forms between nurse and patient"; the extended comparisons are focused on Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches, Georgeanna Woolsesy's Three Weeks at Gettysburg, and Sarah Emma Edmonds's Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
Epstein, Daniel Mark. Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington [review]
Announcements, Spring 2005
Includes a memorial tribute to Edward F. Grier (1917-2004) and a listing of events celebrating the sesquicentennial of the first edition of Leaves of Grass