This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the
writer’s life with an examination of his works.
· An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman.
· Weaves together the writer’s life with an
examination of his works.
· Focuses especially on Whitman’s evolving
masterpiece Leaves of Grass.
· Examines the material conditions and products of
Whitman’s ‘scripted life’, including his original
manuscripts.
· Investigates Whitman’s ‘life in print’
– his belief that he could literally embody himself in his
books.
· Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman’s
work at www.whitmanarchive.org
Daftar Isi
Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations of Whitman’s Works.
Introduction.
1 Growing up in the Age of Accelerating Print: Whitman as
Printer, Journalist, Teacher, and Fiction Writer.
2 ‘Many Manuscript Doings and Undoings’: The Road
toward Leaves of Grass.
3 ‘I Was Chilled with the Cold Types and Cylinder and Wet
Paper Between Us’: The First and Second Editions of Leaves
of Grass.
4 Intimate Script and the New American Bible:
‘Calamus’ and the Making of the 1860 Leaves of
Grass.
5 Blood-Stained Memoranda.
6 Reconstructing Leaves of Grass, Restructuring a
Life.
7 Dying into Leaves.
Appendix: What Whitman Left Us.
References.
Index
Tentang Penulis
Ed Folsom is Carver Professor of English at the University
of Iowa. He is the editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly
Review, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive and the author
or editor of five books on Whitman, including Walt
Whitman’s Native Representations (1994) and Whitman
East and West (1992).
Kenneth M. Price is the Hillegass Professor of American
Literature at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the
co-director of the Walt Whitman archive, editor of Walt Whitman:
The Contemporary Reviews, and author of Whitman and
Tradition: The Poet in his Century (1990) and To Walt
Whitman, America (2004).
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