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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the publication of a long-lost Whitman novel, Jack Engle, along with a hitherto unknown health guide for urban men and previously undiscovered poems. Myriad other documents have become more readily available, including largely unmined troves of journalism, narrative and documentary prose, and experimental note-keeping. Leaves of Grass and Whitman's literary life as a whole are thus ripe for reconsideration. The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman embraces this expanded view of Whitman and charts new pathways in Whitman Studies by bringing in new perspectives, methods, and contexts.

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Author:   Kenneth M. Price (Hillegass University Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) ,  Stefan Schöberlein (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Central Texas)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.384kg
ISBN:  

9780192894847

ISBN 10:   0192894846
Pages:   720
Publication Date:   01 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein: Introduction Part 1. Reading and Writing Whitman 1: Ed Folsom: Whitman Left to his own Devices 2: Matt Cohen and Ashlyn Stewart: Walt Whitman's Archive 3: Kenneth M. Price and Caterina Bernadini: Making the Cut: Whitman's Excisions and Their Consequences Part 2. Notebooks, Scrapbooks, and Mutant Books 4: Nicole Gray: Whitman's Prodigal ""Pictures"" 5: Kevin McMullen: Taking a Page Out of Whitman's Scrapbook: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Poet's Composition Process 6: Blake Bronson-Bartlett: Whitman's Paginator: A Case Study in the Interpretation of Mutant Books Part 3. Whitman and Data, Whitman as Data 7: Zachary Turpin: Whitman's Secret Publications 8: Stefan Schöberlein: Rambles Among Words: Whitman in the Etymological Thicket 9: Edward Whitley: Whitman and Poe's Literary Networks 10: Micah Bateman: Whitman's Web: The Political Poet 2.0 Part 4. Fitness, and Struggle, and the Nation 11: Peter Riley: ""Arm, fortify, harden, make lithe, himself"": ""Manly Health,"" German Turners, and Whitman's Poetics of Training 12: Sascha Pöhlmann: Urbanity, Biopolitics, and Race in Whitman's ""Manly Health and Training"" 13: Matt Miller: Walt Whitman: Poet of Prizefighters Part 5. Whitman, Chronicler of City life 14: Jason Stacy: Walt Whitman's Print Personas: 1840-1865 15: Adam Bradford: ""Move Slowly Through that Beautiful Place of Graves:"" Walt Whitman's Cemeteries 16: Glenn Hendler: Walt Whitman and the Police Part 6. Whitman's Natures 17: Sean Meehan and John Durham Peters: ""What is it, then, between us?"": Whitman's Elemental Media 18: Emily Waples: Whitman's Atmospheres 19: Christine Gerhardt: Whitman's Garden Ecology of Transformation 20: Tom Gannon: ""Flights and Songs and Screams"": Walt Whitman's Birds Part 7. Embodied Variants 21: Ralph James Savarese and Pilar Martinez Benedi: Backhanded Compliments, Or Rehabilitating Rehabilitation in Whitman 22: Don James McLaughlin: An Idle Criticism: Whitman as Disability Theorist in ""How I Get Around at 60, and Take Notes"" 23: Lindsay Tuggle: ""The Dark Bequest:"" Inheriting Whitman's Unworldly Specimens Part 8. Inscribing Identity 24: Timothy Robbins: Walt Whitman, Daniel Garrison Brinton and the Poetics of an ""American"" Ethnology 25: Jeffrey Einboden: Indigenous Glyphs, Granite Inscriptions: From Mazinaw to the Middle East with Whitman's Leaves 26: Jacob Wilkenfeld: ""O baffled, balked"": Interrogating the Poetics of Absorption in Whitman's 1860 Leaves of Grass Cluster Part 9. Whitman Networks, Global and National 27: Walter Grünzweig: ""Solidarity of the World"": Walt Whitman as an International Poet 28: Liu Shusen: Whitman in China: Uncovering his Early Reception from 1870 to 1920 29: Bojana A'camovi'c: ""That's Me, Not Whitman"": Tin Ujevi'c and Ivan V. Lali'c as Whitman's Yugoslav poet-translators 30: Vivian Pollak: Walt Whitman and Muriel Rukeyser Among the Jews 31: Dara Barnat: Walt Whitman in Jewish American Poetry: Charles Reznikoff and Allen Ginsberg"

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Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990), To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004), and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). His most recent book is Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City (Oxford, 2020). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing. Stefan Schöberlein is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He also serves as contributing editor for the Whitman Archive and associate editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His scholarship related to Whitman has appeared in journals such as American Literature, College Literature, and Textual Cultures. He is the author of Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880 (OUP, 2023).

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