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Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 21, no. 3/4
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 21, no. 3/4
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Fall 2003
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Fall 2003
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 21, no. 2
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 21, no. 2
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 21, no. 1
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 21, no. 1
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2003
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer 2003
The Strange Fate of Whitman's Brain
Investigates the circumstances surrounding the removal of Whitman's brain at his autopsy and the subsequent loss of the brain by the American Anthropometric Society; offers a historical, medical, and cultural context for the story, involving the Wistar Institute and the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, anatomist Edward Anthony Spitzka, alienist Edward Charles Spitzka, doctors and scientists Henry Cattell, Francis X. Dercum, Joseph Leidy, Andrew J. Parker, Daniel Longaker, Harrison Allen, Alexander McAlister, William Osler, Henry Donaldson, and other
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 20, no. 3
Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 20, no. 3
Race and the Family Romance: Whitman's Civil War
Examines "the implications of Whitman's experience of the Civil War as a familial tragedy, remembering Whitman as a member of a white, New York working-class family that was experiencing continuous trauma throughout the war years," leading to Whitman's "striking transformation of the poetry of war into a poetry of primary relationships, attachment and loss," but also leaving "the relation of African Americans to the Civil War almost entirely unspoken, unrepresentable," because blacks did "not belong to the national 'family' Whitman imagined and addressed.