Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
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Remembering a Convulsive War: Whitman's Memoranda During the War and the Therapeutics of Display
Get PDFArgues that "the war of disunion and the subsequent dismembering of bodies . . . convulsed and stalled Whitman's poetics, which depended upon a series of metaphoric relations between body, nation, and text," and that through a series of "gruesome narrative displays, Whitman struggled to find a way to represent the war therapeutically," inventing in Memoranda "a representational form that would preserve the convulsiveness of the period.
Whitman and Kate Field
Get PDFDocuments American feminist journalist, lecturer, and actor Kate Field's (1838-1896) admiration for Whitman
An Unpublished Whitman Manuscript about Writing the "History of the Secession War"
Get PDFReproduces and transcribes a Whitman manuscript from the University of Rhode Island about how "some years" must pass before a history of the "Secession War" can be written
Whitman and Teddy Roosevelt: An Unpublished Whitman Prose Manuscript at Sagamore Hill
Get PDFTranscribes a Whitman manuscript at Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill home about the need for a "rough" and "very ample" new literature to capture the "genius of Democratic America"; goes on to discuss Roosevelt's views of Whitman, and Whitman's views of Roosevelt
An Unpublished Early 1870s Photograph of Whitman
Get PDFReprints a recently discovered photograph of Whitman taken by William S. Pendleton in Brooklyn in the early 1870s
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Spring 2005
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Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 23, no. 1/2
No full textBack Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 23, no. 1/2
Whitman and the Presidency
Get PDFExamines "the place of the president in Whitman's democratic and poetic theories" and offers a "general outline of Whitman's serious, though shifting, perspectives on the presidency," seeking to identify "Whitman's personalist and paradoxical theory of the place of presidential power in American democracy," including the relationship of the American president to the American poet