WALT WHITMAN'S AMERICA(ISBN=9780679767091)

　　This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work of one of America's greatest poets--set in the social, cultural, and political context of his time--considers the full range of writings by and about Whitman, including his early poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and day books. of photos.

　　David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Born and raised in Rhode Island, he received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has previously taught at Rutgers University, New York University, Barnard College, and Northwestern University. He is the author of the monumental Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville, winner of the Christian Gauss award. His other publications include Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America;George Lippard; and George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writintgs of an American Radical, 1822-1854 (edited anthology). He is the editor of George Lippard's novel The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall and the author of numerous articles and reviews in the field of American literature and culture, including "Of Me I Sing: Whitman in His Time" (The New York Times Book Review).

Acknowledgments
Introductor2" Note
Prologue
1    "Underneath All, Nativity": Literary Genealog~
        Literary Geography
2   A Brooklyn Boyhood: Sights, Surroundings, Influences
3   Dark Passages: Teaching and Early Authorship
4   Mannahatta: The Literary Marketplace and Urban Reality
5   "The United States Need Poets": The Political and
        Social Crisis
6   American Performances: Theater, Oratory, Music
7   "Sex Is the Root of It All": Eroticism and Gender
8   Earth, Body, Soul: Science and Religion
9   Toward a Popular Aesthetic: The Visual Arts
10   "I Contain Multitudes": The First Edition of Leaves
       of Grass
11    "The Murderous Delays": In Search of an Audience
12   Brotherly Love, National War: Into the 186os
13   "My Book and the War Are One": The Washington Years
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