Beschreibung:
This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together thewriter's life with an examination of his works.· An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman.· Weaves together the writer's life with anexamination of his works.· Focuses especially on Whitman's evolvingmasterpiece Leaves of Grass.· Examines the material conditions and products ofWhitman's "scripted life", including his originalmanuscripts.· Investigates Whitman's "life in print"- his belief that he could literally embody himself in hisbooks.· Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman'swork at whitmanarchive.org
Acknowledgments.List of Abbreviations of Whitman's Works.Introduction.1 Growing up in the Age of Accelerating Print: Whitman asPrinter, Journalist, Teacher, and Fiction Writer.2 "Many Manuscript Doings and Undoings": The Roadtoward Leaves of Grass.3 "I Was Chilled with the Cold Types and Cylinder and WetPaper Between Us": The First and Second Editions of Leavesof Grass.4 Intimate Script and the New American Bible:"Calamus" and the Making of the 1860 Leaves ofGrass.5 Blood-Stained Memoranda.6 Reconstructing Leaves of Grass, Restructuring aLife.7 Dying into Leaves.Appendix: What Whitman Left Us.References.Index