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Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:50 PST

In Memoriam: Clarence Gohdes

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:50 PST

Davis, Robert Leigh. Whitman and the Romance of Medicine [review]

Mark Bauerlein — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:49 PST

Schmidgall, Gary. Walt Whitman: A Gay Life [review]

Martin G. Murray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:49 PST

Soft Fabric, Bright Wounds

Thomas David Lisk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:48 PST

Excerpted from a larger set of similar writings, this fictional treatment of historical facts imagines an elderly Whitman in Camden, New Jersey, recalling his Civil War experiences.

Beach, Christopher. The Politics of Distinction [review]

M. Jimmie Killingsworth — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:48 PST

Weathering the Storm: Whitman and the Civil War

M. Wynn Thomas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:47 PST

Uses a variety of sources including Memoranda During the War, Specimen Days, and Drum-Taps to examine Whitman's responses to the weather during the Civil War, investigating how weather worked as a trope for Whitman and how weather carried meaning differently during the time of the Civil War than it does presently.

Editor's Note: Whitman and the Civil War

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:46 PST

Caresser of Life: Walt Whitman and the Civil War

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:46 PST

Excerpted from the opening chapter of Loving's Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself, this essay gathers extant information about the poet's life to provide a context for understanding Whitman's vacillating attitudes toward the Civil War.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:45 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:42 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:41 PST

Walt and Pete in the Family Hour

Joann P. Krieg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:41 PST

Leon, Philip. Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler [review]

Larry D. Griffin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:40 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:40 PST

Corona, Mario, trans. Walt Whitman, Foglie d'erba 1855 [review]

Marina Comboni — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:39 PST

Eiselein, Gregory. Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era [review]

M. Wynn Thomas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:39 PST

On the Back Cover: A Whitman Manuscript Fragment

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:38 PST

Introduces a previously unknown prose manuscript fragment of Whitman's.

Price, Kenneth, ed., Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews [review]

Joel Myerson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:38 PST

Memorializing Lincoln: Whitman's "Revision" of James Speed's Oration Upon the Inauguration of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln

M. Lynda Ely — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:37 PST

Compares the texts of James Speed's Oration Upon the Inauguration of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln with writings of Whitman on Lincoln and assesses the poet's editorial influence on Speed's oration, concluding that it "bears the indelible imprint of the poet."

"Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus": Textual Inhibitions in Whitman Criticism

Steven Olsen-Smith — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:36 PST

Examines "inhibiting assumptions--textual and aesthetic, not sexual"--that the authors believe "have persisted, apparently not so much unacknowledged by ... critics, but unrecognized" in the "Calamus" cluster in Leaves of Grass; reviews previous readings of "Calamus" and explores textual issues related to Whitman's editing and rearrangement of the cluster

A British View to an American War: Whitman's 'Drum-Taps' Cluster and the Editorial Influence of William Michael Rossetti

Julianne Ramsey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:36 PST

Examines William Michael Rossetti's editorial influence on the "Drum-Taps" cluster in Leaves of Grass and details arrangements of Whitman's Civil War poems by Whitman and Rossetti, arguing that the sequence, "as ultimately presented to the world by Whitman, owes its essential structure and meaning to Rossetti's editorial pioneering of 1868."

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:35 PST

The Bolton Whitman Collection: A Bibliography

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:33 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:33 PST

Redrawing Whitman's Circle

Carmine Sarracino — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:32 PST

Explores Whitman's reception among ardent followers (including George Fox, Father Taylor and Elias Hicks) in the light of Whitman's extra-literary, mystical or neo-religious impact, emphasizing the disparate, essentially incompatible perspectives of "the detached critic" as opposed to the "attached devotee"; compares Whitman's reception to that of "poet-masters" in Eastern cultural traditions.

Traubel, Horace. Chapman, Jeanne and Robert MacIsaac, eds. With Walt Whitman in Camden [review]

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:32 PST

Review of Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, vols. 8 and 9.

Without Walt Whitman in Camden

Joann P. Krieg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:31 PST

Examines the lives of some of Whitman's friends and followers in and around Camden, New Jersey, in the time shortly after the poet's death; uses the correspondence of Horace Traubel, Richard M. Bucke, Thomas Harned, John Symonds and others to explore how Whitman's sexuality, reputation, and writing were debated and interpreted by his followers in the wake of the poet's death.

Whitman's Disciples: Editor's Note

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:30 PST

Introduces a special double issue of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review devoted to studies of Whitman's disciples.

Loving Comrades: Lancashire's Links to Walt Whitman

Paul Salveson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:30 PST

Offers the history of a group of Whitman's advocates living in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Bolton, Lancashire, England, known as the "Bolton group" or "Bolton college," and emphasizes Whitman's role upon the socialist politics and lifestyles of these individuals, including J.W. Wallace, Fred Wild, Dr. J. Johnston, Edward Carpenter, Katherine Conway, Bruce Glasier, Robert Blatchford, Caroline Martyn, Keir Hardie, John Addington Symonds, George Russell, and Wallace and Katherine Glasier.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:29 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:28 PST

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:27 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:27 PST

Whitman on Robert Burns: A Footnote

Roger Asselineau — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:26 PST

Adds a footnote to Gary Scharnhorst's essay, "Whitman on Robert Burns: An Early Essay Recovered," by presenting a handwritten note of Whitman's that was incorporated in Whitman's recovered essay on Burns.

Whitman, Walt. Poetry and Prose (Library of America) Ed. Justin Kaplan [review]

Sam Abrams — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:26 PST

"If He Be Not Himself the Age Transfigured": The Poet, the "Cultivating Class," and Whitman's 1855 "Song of Myself"

Barbara Clancy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:25 PST

Explores how Whitman defined issues of class in his poetry in an effort to address the working people of the United States and describes the poet's "attack on oppositional categorization" as an effort "to provide a common ground between the poet and his people," showing that Whitman "removed his subjects to a 'place' away from the 'pulling and hauling' in order to preserve his own poetic role as the transcender of oppositions."

Swinburne and Whitman: Further Evidence

Terry L. Meyers — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:24 PST

Describes Swinburne's reactions to Whitman, focusing on Swinburne's "defection" from Whitman and, extending a previous analysis by William J. Goede, offering new evidence that Swinburne's "developing coolness may have manifested a defensive homophobia."

Whitman, Pater, and "An English Poet"

Ernest Fontana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:24 PST

Shows how Walter Pater's "suppression" in 1889 of his 1876 reference to Whitman and his reluctance to complete "An English Poet" "converge as textual events" to reveal Pater's "anxious interest in Whitman" which he tried to hide from his own readers.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:23 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:33 PST

Nandyal, Ranganath. Henry Miller in the Light of Eastern Thought [review]

Gay Wilson Allen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:32 PST

In Memoriam: Tributes to Gay Wilson Allen, 1903-1995

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:32 PST

Obituary tribute to Gay Wilson Allen, followed by other tributes, each listed separately in this bibliography.

Whitman, Walt. Dail glaswellt (Leaves of Grass) trans. M. Wynn Thomas [review]

Joseph P. Clancy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:31 PST

"Song of Myself," Section 1, in Fifteen Languages

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:30 PST

Prints Section 1 of "Song of Myself" in the original (73), and then in a Chinese translation by Zhao Luorui (74), a French translation by Roger Asselineau (75), a German translation by Hans Reisiger (76), a Greek translation by Nikos Proestopoulos (77), a Hebrew translation by Simon Halkin (78), a Hindi translation by V. P. Sharma (79), an Italian translation by Mario Corona (80), a Khmer translation by U Sam Oeur and Ken McCullough (81), a Polish translation by Andrzej Szuba (82), a Portuguese translation by Geir Campos (83), a Russian translation by Kornei I. Chukovsky (84), a Slovenian translation by Uros Mozetic (85), a Spanish translation by Jorge Luis Borges (86), a Swedish translation by K. A. Svensson (87), and a Welsh translation by M. Wynn Thomas (88).

Whitman, Walt. Cao Ye Ji (Leaves of Grass) trans. Zhao Luorui [review]

Guiyou Huang — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:30 PST

Turgenev and Whitman

I Chistova — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:29 PST

Discusses and prints Ivan Turgenev's Russian translation of "Beat! Beat! Drums!," and offers an overview of Turgenev's relationship with Whitman; this article originally appeared in Russkaia Leteratura (1966) and is here translated into English by Claudine Prieur, and Paule and Roger Asselineau.

An Interview with U Sam Oeur

Ken McCullough — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:28 PST

Interview with first Khmer translator of Leaves of Grass.

Whitman in Translation: A Seminar

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:27 PST

Transcription of a two-day seminar dealing with the problems and challenges of translating Whitman into other languages, held at the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies on March 30-31, 1992, with Fernando Alegria, Gay Wilson Allen, Carl L. Anderson, Roger Asselineau, V. K. Chari, Ed Folsom, Ezra Greenspan, Walter Gruenzweig, Guiyou Huang, Maria Clara Bonetti Paro, M. Wynn Thomas, and Li Yeguang.

An Interview with Zhao Luorui

Kenneth M. Price — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:27 PST

Interview with the first translator to render the complete Leaves of Grass into Chinese.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:26 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:10 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:10 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:09 PST

Greenspan, Ezra, ed., Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman [review]

Martin Klammer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:08 PST

Sill, Geoffrey M. and Roberta K. Tarbell, eds. Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts [review]

Robert K. Martin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:08 PST

Erkkila, Betsy and Jay Grossman, eds., Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies [review]

Gregory Eiselein — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:07 PST

From the Material to the Spiritual in the Sea-Drift Cluster: Transcendence in "On the Beach at Night," "The World below the Brine," and "On the Beach at Night Alone"

A. James Wohlpart — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:06 PST

Focuses on three critically neglected poems in Whitman's Sea-Drift cluster ("On the Beach at Night," "The World Below the Brine" and "On the Beach at Night Alone") and reads the poems as an important "interruption" in the cluster as a whole, in which the poet establishes crucial ideas of mortality, materiality and spirituality.

"I Knew Reuben Farwell as a First-Class Soldier": An Unpublished Whitman Letter

Martin G. Murray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:06 PST

Presents a previously unpublished letter by Whitman to civil war veteran Reuben Farwell and provides a brief history of the Farwell family and their relationship with Whitman.

Walt Whitman and Frederick Delius, Endlessly Rocking

O. Alan Weltzien — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:05 PST

Explores the relation between Whitman's Sea-Drift and the musical compositions of Frederick Delius, arguing that "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and Delius' composition "'rock' in exquisite complementarity"; traces the formal and philosophical congruities between the works.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:04 PST

The Idea of Music in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

William F. Mayhan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:04 PST

Reads Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" in terms of the poem's indebtedness to music, especially Italian Opera, arguing that music plays "not only a structural role, but a symbolic one," and that the "solution ('clew') to the ultimate mystery of being is, for Whitman, an essentially musical solution."

Back Matter

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:01 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:00 PST

Announcements

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:00 PST

Reynolds, David. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography [review]

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:59 PST

Klammer, Martin. Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of "Leaves of Grass" [review]

Larry D. Griffin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:59 PST

Schwiebert, John E. The Frailest Leaves: Whitman's Poetic Technique and Style in the Short Poem [review]

Michael Tavel Clarke — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:59 PST

Four Letters about Whitman in the Angeli-Dennis Papers

Roger Peattie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:58 PST

Grace Ellery Channing and the Whitman Calendar

Joann Krieg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:58 PST

Describes the relations between Grace Ellery Channing, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Douglas O'Conner, and Walt Whitman, focusing especially upon the never-realized proposal to make a calendar using excerpts from Leaves of Grass.

The Union of Music and Text in Whitman's Drum-Taps and Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment

John M. Picker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:57 PST

Explores the similarities and differences between Whitman's Drum-Taps and Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment, describing how beneath the "veneer of dislike and disgust" between the two men, "both authors use music to unite communities against a war of national dissolution" and how both "successfully bridge the gap between written and aural modes of communication."

"Broadway, the Magnificent!": A Newly Discovered Whitman Essay

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:56 PST

Introduces and presents what had been a lost essay by Whitman, first published in Life Illustrated on November 8, 1856, celebrating the present and past excitement and pageantry of "Manhattan's oldest street, originally an Indian trail."

Missing Whitman Notebooks Returned to Library of Congress

Alice L. Birney — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:56 PST

Details the history of the recovery by the Library of Congress of four of the most important of Whitman's original notebooks (and of his cardboard butterfly), missing since World War II; written by a librarian in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress who was directly involved in the manuscripts' recovery.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:55 PST

William White, 1910-1995

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:55 PST

Memorial tribute to Whitman scholar William White.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:54 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:53 PST

Announcements

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:53 PST

Whitman's "Poem of the Road"

Harold Aspiz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:52 PST

Offers an in-depth reading of Whitman's "Poem of the Road" ("Song of the Open Road" in post-1860 editions of Leaves of Grass), celebrating the poem and exploring its nuances while arguing that the poem "blends the poet's 'public' and 'private' voices, melds ideology and intimacy, and affords a dynamic projection of the poet's self-image."

Sill, Geoffrey M., ed., Walt Whitman of Mickle Street: A Centennial Collection [review]

Ezra Greenspan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:52 PST

Representing the Kosmos: The "Lyric Turn" in Whitman

Onno Oerlemans — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:51 PST

Explores "the changing status of the major modes" of literature--here narrative and lyric--in the context of Whitman's oeuvre, focusing especially on "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" and defending the lyric against contemporary, pro-narrative arguments that see lyric modes as solipsistic; argues that "lyric reminds us where freedom may be found and why it matters."

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:50 PST

"The Frailest Leaves of Me": A Study of the Text and Music for Whitman's "To What You Said"

Carla Maria Verdino-Sullwold — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:50 PST

Examines in depth a little-known Whitman poem, "To What You Said," examining the manuscript of the poem and offering "a re-examination of crucial biographical events, an extensive comparative textual analysis" and a "response to the subtleties revealed when the written word is sung" in the musical setting of the poem composed by Leonard Bernstein; written by the world-renowned baritone and his personal assistant.

Back Matter

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:49 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:48 PST

Announcements

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:48 PST

Myerson, Joel, ed., The Walt Whitman Archive: a Facsimile of the Poet's Manuscripts [review]

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:47 PST

Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon [review]

R. W. French — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:47 PST

The Gay Wilson Allen Papers

Stanley S. Blair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:46 PST

Describes the contents of the Gay Wilson Allen Papers, many of them dealing with Whitman, recently made available at the Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography.

Democracy in Action: Naming the Bridge for Walt Whitman

Joann P. Krieg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:46 PST

Describes the amusing 1950s controversy surrounding the naming of the Walt Whitman Bridge connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Sacred Panoramas: Walt Whitman and New York City Parks

Jill Wacker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:45 PST

Examines Whitman's journalism, focusing on his stories and editorials like "A Lazy Day" that present the author in a "slacker pose"; argues that while Whitman's "agitations for public space change over time," he "ultimately champions the notion of allocating higher grounds for public use, allowing all city-dwellers the opportunity to experience the all-encompassing power of the panoramic."

"A Young Woman Meets Walt Whitman": Anne Montgomerie Traubel's First Impression of the Poet

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:45 PST

Introduces and presents a little-known short essay that was "told by Anne Montgomerie to her daughter Gertrude Traubel," describing Anne Montgomerie Traubel's early impressions of the poet.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:44 PST

Walt Whitman, Literary Culture, and the Discourse of Distinction

Christopher Beach — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:44 PST

Explores the various and often contradictory views Whitman expressed over time about literary culture, heritage, genres, and canonicity; following Pierre Bourdieu, describes the "discourse of distinction" by which Whitman negotiates the "double logic" of desiring "distinction from the culturally distinguished literary modes

Back Matter

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:43 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:42 PST

Announcements

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:42 PST

Folsom, Ed. Walt Whitman's Native Representations [review]

M. Jimmie Killingsworth — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:41 PST

Folsom, Ed, ed., Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays [review]

David S. Reynolds — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:41 PST

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:40 PST

"Pete the Great": A Biography of Peter Doyle

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. The Growth of Leaves of Grass: the Organic Tradition in Whitman Studies [review]

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:59 PST

Myerson, Joel. Walt Whitman: A Descriptive Bibliography [review]

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:58 PST

An Unknown Profile of Whitman

Jim McWilliams — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:58 PST

Presents a previously unknown profile of Whitman originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 17, 1879.

Knapp, Bettina L. Walt Whitman [review]

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:58 PST

Abrams, Sam, ed., The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts [review]

Roberts W. French — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:58 PST

Walt Whitman in Trimming Square

Thomas Farel Heffernan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:58 PST

Describes the location of historic "Trimming Square" where Whitman taught in 1839 and 1840 and offers a photograph of the school building.

Whitman Naked?

Ed Folsom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:57 PST

Describes Thomas Eakins' recently discovered photographs of a nude man who may be Walt Whitman; the photographs are printed on the back cover of the journal.

Dougherty, James. Walt Whitman and the Citizen's Eye [review]

M. Jimmie Killingsworth — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:57 PST

Notes to Accompany Whitman's Letter of July 28, 1891

Milton Kessler — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:57 PST

Presents and contextualizes a previously unpublished letter of Whitman to his sister, Hannah Heyde.

Gr�nzweig, Walter. Walt Whitmann: die deutschsprachige Rezeption als interkulturelles Phänomen [review]

Robert K. Martin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:57 PST

Whitman to C. W. Post: A Lost Letter Located

Alice Lotvin Birney — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:57 PST

Presents a newly located lost letter of Whitman's and offers a brief history of its recipient, the dry-cereal manufacturer C.W. Post.

"The Original Eye": Whitman, Schelling and the Return to Origins

Robert J. Scholnick — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:56 PST

Explores ideas of originality as they relate to Whitman's writing and thought and uses Frederich Schelling to argue that "Whitman's presentation of himself as an original poet in Leaves of Grass was based on an aesthetic strategy involving an imaginative return to origins &

Mystical Experience in H.D. and Walt Whitman: An Intertextual Reading of Tribute to the Angels and "Song of Myself"

J. W. Walkington — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:56 PST

Reads H.D.'s Tribute to the Angels in conjunction with Whitman's "Song of Myself," finding congruities that "reinforce the value of mysticism in both works"; uses James E. Miller, Jr.'s essay "'Song of Myself' as Inverted Mystical Experience" as a key into H.D.'s poems.

Leaves of Grass in Claude Debussy's Prose

Brooks Toliver — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:56 PST

Tracks Whitman's previously unacknowledged influence on composer Claude Debussy and proposes that "Debussy could not have avoided knowledge of Whitman had he tried, and his well-known nature aesthetic owes some--though by no means all--of its inspiration to that poet."

"With the first grass-blade": Whitman's Influence on the Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Denise D. Knight — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:56 PST

Examines Whitman's influence on the poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, compares and contrasts the authors, and offers readings of some of Gilman's poems.

Letters from Warrie

Joann P. Krieg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:55 PST

Provides a history of the relationship between Whitman and Warren Fritzinger, the poet's nurse at the time of his death; includes an examination of the information known of Fritzinger's life, and presents and interprets four letters from Fritzinger, all of which concern Whitman to varying extents.

A Newly Discovered Whitman Poem

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:55 PST

Presents a newly discovered Whitman poem, "A Sketch," and offers a bibliographic and textual analysis.

Walt Whitman in Brazil

Maria Clara Bonetti Paro — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:55 PST

Traces the history of Whitman's reception in Brazil, discussing his impact as a whole and on specific writers including Tasso da Silveira, Ronald de Carvalho, and Mário de Andrade.

Emory Holloway and the Quest for Whitman's "Manhood"

Discusses Section 11 of "Song of Myself" in the context of Whitman's identification of femininity with a mythological muse.

Yeguang, Li. A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman [review]

Guiyou Huang — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:19 PST

"Do I Contradict Myself?": Progression through Contraries in Walt Whitman's "The Sleepers"

Carol Zapata Whelan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:19 PST

Employs Julia Kristeva's theories to read Whitman's "The Sleepers" as a progression through dichotomies which justifies the "life affirming" final two sections that other critics have regarded as "contrived."

Leaves of Grass as a "Woman's Book"

Maire Mullins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:18 PST

Argues that "Leaves can be read as a 'woman's book,' but that this must be done from a different critical perspective than has thus far been taken" and goes on to use the strategies of Helene Cixous to read Whitman's poems, focusing upon "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "The Sleepers," and Section 11 of "Song of Myself."

A Brother's Love

Martin G. Murray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:18 PST

Presents a medical certificate requesting an extension for George Washington Whitman's leave of absence in 1865 that is believed to have been written in part by Whitman.

Bunkum Did Go Sogering

Martin G. Murray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:18 PST

Provides documentary evidence that Walt Whitman's brother, Andrew Jackson Whitman, served in the Union army during the Civil War and provides details of his service.

Fone, Byrne R. S. Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text [review]

Charley Shively — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:18 PST

Whitman and Saroyan: Singing the Song of America

Dickran Kouymjian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:18 PST

Argues for the importance of Whitman in the work of William Saroyan and compares these writers' lives, examining Saroyan's statements about Whitman, especially in the essay "What Makes American Writing American."

The Maturing Vision of Walt Whitman's 1871 Version of Drum-Taps

Anthony Szczesiul — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:17 PST

Examines the 1871 "Drum-Taps" cluster on its own terms and in relation to other editions, arguing that "the drastic reorganization of the poems into a narrative pattern indicates Whitman's shifting attitude toward the war as it receded from his day-to-day life into the historic past."

Emory Holloway's Final Word on Whitman's Son

Joann P. Krieg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:17 PST

Uses Pulitzer Prize- winning Whitman scholar Emory Holloway's correspondence with Verne Dyson to determine Holloway's response to the refutation of his claim that Whitman had fathered a son, a claim Holloway made in his late and ill-fated study, Free and Lonesome Heart: The Secret of Walt Whitman.

Myerson, Joel, ed., Whitman in His Own Time: a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, memoirs, and interviews by friends and associates [review]

M. Wynn Thomas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:17 PST

Whitman, Warren, and the Literature of Discovery

William Bedford Clark — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:17 PST

Examines Robert Penn Warren's responses to Whitman (especially Warren's poem "Empire") and argues that "it was Whitman against whom Warren

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:16 PST

Walt Whitman and Asian American Writers

Xilao Li — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:16 PST

Explores Whitman's attitudes toward Asian Americans and reads the work of several Asian American writers--including Sadakichi Hartmann, Yone Noguchi, Lin Yutang, Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Garrett Hongo, and Maxine Hong Kingston--in the context of Whitman's poetry and vision of democracy.

Whitman at Pfaff's: Commercial Culture, Literary Life and New York Bohemia at Mid-Century

Christine Stansell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:16 PST

Provides a rich historical context for understanding the years from 1859-1862 when Whitman spent time at Pfaff's, a basement saloon in central Manhattan; explores the idea of Bohemianism in relation to Whitman and describes the role it played in Whitman's development.

From Walt to Waldo: Whitman's Welsh Admirers

M. Wynn Thomas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:16 PST

Considers "the way in which Whitman's influence became operative within Welsh-language culture" by examining his influence on Welsh authors including Niclas y Glais, Waldo Williams and Emyr Humphreys.

Symposium: Walt Whitman Facing West (editor's note)

Jerome Loving — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:16 PST

Special issue containing four essays, listed separately in this bibliography, and an "Editor's Note," 1-2, describing the March 20-22, 1992, symposium "Walt Whitman Facing West," from which the essays comprising the issue were solicited..

Edith Wharton's "Sketch of an Essay on Walt Whitman"

Announcements

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:15 PST

Alcaro, Marion. Walt Whitman's Mrs. G.: A Biography of Anne Gilchrist [review]

Sherry Ceniza — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:14 PST

Pastiche of My Subjectivity / A Poem

Paul Baepler — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:14 PST

Poem parodying post-modernism and its jargon by way of "Song of Myself"; also published on cover of Exquisite Corpse #35 (1992).

Haigney, Jessica. Walt Whitman and the French Impressionists: a Study of Analogies [review]

Ruth L. Bohan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:14 PST

The Whitman Recording

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:13 PST

Describes the rediscovery of the "tape-recording of what may be an 1889 or 1890 wax-cylinder recording of Walt Whitman reading four lines of his late poem 'America.'"

An Unpublished Whitman Postcard to Karl Knortz

Edwin Haviland Miller — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:13 PST

Presents a previously unpublished postcard dated April 20th, 1883, and provides a brief description of its addressee.

Moon, Michael. Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in "Leaves of Grass" [review]

Jerome Loving — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:13 PST

Walt Whitman and William Cowper: A Borrowing

K. Narayan Chandran — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:12 PST

Presents the case that Whitman borrowed a line from Cowper's "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk" for his "Passage to India" and argues that the connection underscores larger points regarding the aesthetic weakness of "Passage" and Whitman's evolution toward a more "conventional logocentrism."

Notes on an Early Daguerreotype of Walt Whitman

Denise B. Bethel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:12 PST

Offers evidence that the well-known early daguerreotype of Whitman frequently cited as the poet's earliest known photograph "was not taken in New York, but in New Orleans, and thus can be dated precisely to that period of February to May, 1848."

Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman and the American Reader [review]

Harold Aspiz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:12 PST

Whitman and the Commonwealth

Len Gougeon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:11 PST

Presents a neglected article from the April 10, 1863, issue of the Commonwealth advocating Whitman's work; describes Whitman's relation to publishers Thayer and Eldridge and other abolitionists including John Townsend Trowbridge, William Douglas O'Connor and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.

Women's Letters to Walt Whitman: Some Corrections

Sherry Ceniza — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:11 PST

Corrects a false gender attribution in Edwin Haviland Miller's "Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman," in which Miller describes Ada H. Spalding's letter as from a male correspondent, and points out that another letter, attributed to "Pedalia (?) Bates," is in fact from women's rights activist Redelia Bates; explores the implications of these errors.

History of My Whitman Studies

Gay Wilson Allen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:11 PST

Provides an account of the author's long involvement in Whitman scholarship, including the writing of the Walt Whitman Handbook, The Solitary Singer, and the editing of Collected Writings of Walt Whitman.

Whitman's Impossible Mother

Steven A. Wartofsky — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:10 PST

Explores the question of "who is Whitman's biographical mother" by examining the poetry (especially "Song of Myself" and "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life") in the context of theoretical statements by Lacan, Kristeva, Roustang, and Jacqueline Rose; argues that Whitman's "mother-voice" is presented in the form of the "primitive semiotic" and that "she is the Self who by her own revelations legitimates Whitman's homosexual identity."

The Language of Sexuality: Walt Whitman and Galway Kinnell

Nancy Lewis Tuten — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:10 PST

Explores Kinnell's "indebtedness to Whitman" by examining Kinnell's prose statements and his poems, especially "The Waking" and "Flying Home"; argues that "Kinnell's verse echoes Whitman's not only in its claim that the soul is not to be revered above the body but in its understanding of humanity's need to realign itself with the rest of creation."

From Outsetting Bard to Mature Poet: Whitman's "Out of the Cradle" and the Sea-Drift Cluster

A. James Wohlpart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:10 PST

Examines the theme of immortality in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," situating the poem in the larger context of the Sea-Drift cluster; argues that because previous readings have "attempted to see in that poem the full growth of the poet, the richness of the cluster as a whole has been lost."

A Listening to Walt Whitman and James Wright

George Yatchisin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:09 PST

Analyzes Wright's essay, "The Delicacy of Walt Whitman," to "test Wright's

Walt Whitman's Voice

Another Whitman Photograph: The Gurney and Rockwood Sessions Reconsidered

John Rietz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:53 PST

Presents a previously unpublished photograph of Whitman, providing background information and examining the problems of attributing various photos to specific photographers.

Whitman's Apocryphal "Star and Stripes Necktie"

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:53 PST

Presents a forgotten piece of journalism from a January, 1892, issue of The Advertiser entitled "Walt Whitman's Fad," which claims (mistakenly) that Whitman used to wear a stars-and-stripes necktie in New York and offers Horace Traubel's notes regarding Whitman's reaction to the story.

My Discovery and Exploration of the Whitman Continent (1941-1991)

Roger Asselineau — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:52 PST

Provides an account of the author's involvement in Whitman scholarship, including his early recognition of Whitman's homosexuality and the writing of L' Evolution de Walt Whitman (The Evolution of Walt Whitman).

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:51 PST

The Whitman-Pessoa Connection

Susan Margaret Brown — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:51 PST

Explores Whitman's impact on Pessoa by showing how Whitman precipitated Pessoa's creation of his personae, Campos and Caero.

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:04:05 PST

Index

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A Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman (Revised 1991)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:04:03 PST

Notes on the Correspondence

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Abbreviations

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The Correspondence

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A List of Whitman's Correspondents

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The Correspondence of Walt Whitman: A Second Supplement with an Revised Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman

Edwin Haviland Miller — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:59 PST

Collects the Whitman letters that have appeared after the first supplement to The Correspondence (1977); with an Introduction (1-3) and a revised and expanded "Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman" (43-96).

Acknowledgements

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:59 PST

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:58 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:41 PST

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:40 PST

Announcements

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:40 PST

Christman, Henry M., ed. Walt Whitman's New York [review]

R. W. French — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:39 PST

Kuebrich, David. Minor Prophecy: Walt Whitman's New American Religion [review]

George Hutchinson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:38 PST

Sweet, Timothy. Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union [review]

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:38 PST

Whitman Then and Now: A Reminiscence

James E. Miller Jr. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:37 PST

Provides an account of the author's involvement in Whitman scholarship, including an account of the academic climate in mid-twentieth century America and of the author's involvement in the writing of Start with the Sun: Studies in the Whitman Tradition and the editing of Whitman's Complete Poetry and Selected Prose.

Price, Kenneth. Whitman and Tradition [review]

Roger Asselineau — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:37 PST

Dyspeptic Amours, Petty Adhesiveness, and Whitman's Ideal of Personal Relations

Carmine Sarracino — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:36 PST

Provides an etymological analysis of Whitman's use of three important words in his poetic vocabulary: amativeness, amorousness, and adhesiveness.

Whitman on "The Black Question": A New Manuscript

Geoffrey Sill — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:35 PST

Presents "Of the black question," a previously unpublished Whitman manuscript owned by Whitman collector William Kurry, and offers a close reading of the text (in typographic translation) relating the manuscript to Whitman's attitudes toward race and racial politics.

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:02:34 PST

Announcements

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:57 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:57 PST

Miller, James E. Jr. Walt Whitman (Updated Edition) [review]

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:56 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:56 PST

Miller, Edwin Haviland, ed. Selected Letters of Walt Whitman [review]

Jerome Loving — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:55 PST

The Earliest French Review of Whitman (Continued)

Roger Asselineau — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:54 PST

Contributes to the discourse surrounding the mystery of the nonexistent French translation of Leaves of Grass announced by the New York Saturday Press in 1860 and described in Ezra Greenspan's note also included in this issue of WWQR.

One Hundred Years Ago: Harper's Asks a Question

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:54 PST

Examines the "odd prose piece" called "Two Questions" from Whitman's small 1891 book Good-bye My Fancy in conjunction with the column it (mis)quotes by George William Curtis from Harper's Monthly (July, 1890).

More Light on the Earliest French Review of Whitman

Ezra Greenspan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:53 PST

Clears up a confusion regarding the author's article, "The Earliest French Review of Walt Whitman" in WWQR (6/3) by establishing that "the French translation of Leaves of Grass announced by the New York Saturday Press in 1860 was a literary hoax" and proposes that Henry Clapp may have been the hoax's perpetrator; see also Roger Asselineau's note in the same issue of WWQR.

Music in the Rhythm of War: Othmar Schoeck and the Beginning of Whitman-Music in the German-Speaking Countries

Werner Gr�nzweig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:52 PST

Explores how Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) "made a radical political statement" by interpreting "Beat! Beat! Drums!" in his 1915 work Trommelschlage (Drum-Taps).

Walt Whitman in Finland

Niilo Peltola — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:52 PST

Surveys Whitman's influence on Finnish poets, critics, and readers from the turn of the century to the present, focussing especially on the work of such poets as Elmer Diktonius, Hagar Olsson, Edith Sodergran, Viljo Kajava, and Arvo Turtiainen.

Passage to More than Imagism: Whitman's Imagistic Poems

John E. Schwiebert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:51 PST

Identifies Whitman's "imagistic poems" not as "an exculsive and distinctive subset of Leaves" but as "whole poems in which the discursive and didactic elements . . . are suppressed, and the visual element predominates"; reads these poems as important elements in his oeuvre that "invite us to limn significances (as poets do) behind even the most overtly 'simple' and 'objective' facts."

Whitman's Dream Vision: A Reading of "The Sleepers"

Whitman and Worcester

Michael R. Dressman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:36 PST

Uses a recently discovered copy of Jospeh E. Worcester's Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language (1849) signed by Whitman to argue for the likelihood of Whitman's use of the book in his notebooks on language.

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:36 PST

Whitman, Walt. Vlati trave [review]

Arthur Golden — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:36 PST

Whitman, Walt. Foglie d'Erba [review]

Roger Asselineau — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:36 PST

Whitman as the Nazarene: An Unpublished Drawing

Randall Waldron — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:35 PST

Presents a letter from Edward Carpenter to an unidentified "Benjamin," describing Carpenter's first meeting with Whitman on May 2, 1877; Carpenter's sketch of Whitman's face, which accompanies the letter, appears on the back cover of the issue.

Miller, Edwin Haviland. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Mosaic of Interpretations [review]

James Perrin Warren — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:35 PST

Leverenz, David. Manhood and the American Renaissance [review]

Robert K. Martin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:35 PST

Gertrud Kolmar's Response to Walt Whitman

Suzanne Araas-Vesely — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:35 PST

Examines Whitmanian echoes in the poetry of German writer Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943).

Reynolds, David. Beneath the American Renaissance, and Jeffrey Steele, Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance [review]

M. Jimmie Killingsworth — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:35 PST

Mrs. Grundy and Walt Whitman

William R. Linneman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:34 PST

Describes the short-lived 1865 New York City humor magazine called Mrs. Grundy and presents a hitherto uncollected sketch, "Whitmaniacal," from the August 26 issue.

Whitman on "Periphrastic" Literature

C. Carroll Hollis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:34 PST

The Centenary of "Horace's Book": Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman

Owen Hawley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:34 PST

Describes the origin and reception of Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, an 1889 appreciation of Whitman edited by Horace Traubel to commemorate the poet's seventieth birthday and containing "a combination of eulogistic propaganda and personal letters" celebrating the life and work of the poet.

Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet [review]

M. Wynn Thomas — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:34 PST

Whitman and American Personalistic Philosophy

Bernard Schmidt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:33 PST

Traces Whitman's influence on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century philosophical movement known as "Personalism"--"a nonempirical philosophy in which the self obtains knowledge from a mighty power of reason, which is creative and can fashion reality from its own ideas"--and argues that "the American writer who first formally used the term 'Personalism' was Walt Whitman" and that "wherever the Personalistic path leads, it should not be forgotten that there was a distinct philosophical school that formally began with Whitman's article 'Personalism.'"

A Delicate Balance: Whitman's Stanzaic Poems

John E. Schwiebert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:33 PST

From Major to Minor: A Reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life."

R. W. French — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:33 PST

Reads "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" as Whitman's turn from the "major" themes of poems like "Song of Myself" to a "devotion to the ordinary, the plain, the un-beautiful."

Jessie Louisa Whitman: Memories of Uncle Walt, et al., 1939-1943

Randall Waldron — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:33 PST

Uses a 1939 interview by Ralph L. Fansler with Jessie Louisa Whitman, daughter of Whitman's brother Thomas Jefferson Whitman, to describe in detail Jessie's life and her relationship to "the Whitman clan," including reminiscences of Whitman's brothers George, Eddy, and Jesse.

With Walt Whitman in Camden: A Progress Report and a Supplement

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:31 PST

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:44:31 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:08 PST

Shiveley, Charley, ed., Drum Beats: Walt Whitman's Civil War Boy Lovers [review]

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:07 PST

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:07 PST

Larson, Kerry. Whitman's Drama of Consensus [review]

R. W. French — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:06 PST

"You Tides with Ceaseless Swell": A Reading of the Manuscript

Geoffrey M. Sill — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:05 PST

Argues against common, negative assumptions about Whitman's later poetry by defending the value of Whitman's eight "Fancies at Navesink" poems; compares the published versions to manuscript drafts of the poems to demonstrate that Whitman, in his later years, "reached a level of formal art that had eluded him before."

Walt Whitman and Mrs. G.

Marion Walker Alcaro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:04 PST

Explores in detail the life of Anne Gilchrist, especially in relation to her correspondence and encounters with Whitman; reprints images of Whitman and Gilchrist from paintings by Herbert Gilchrist; concludes that "(Whitman's) relationship with Mrs. G (…) was one of the most enduring and all-nurturing relationships that he ever experienced with any woman."

"The Laughing Philosopher": Whitman's Comic Repose

George B. Hutchinson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:04 PST

Proposes that "Whitman in his later years enacted a comic 're-pose' beholden to a western tradition of comedy and a stoic ethos of 'playing one's part' in Nature's cosmic drama," and emphasizes the poet's "increasing dependence upon Stoic detachment" that "masked a level of anxiety the poet perhaps could hardly admit to himself."

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:03 PST

Notes on Four Additional Whitman Photographs

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:02 PST

Describes the four previously unpublished Whitman photographs presented on the back cover of the issue.

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:02 PST

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:01 PST

Announcements

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:01 PST

"A Noiseless Patient Spider": Whitman's Beauty--Blood and Brain

Paul Diehl — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:00 PST

Examines the evolution of "A Noiseless Patient Spider" from notebook jottings through manuscript draft, original publication in The Broadway, revision in Passage to India, and final appearance in the 1881 Leaves of Grass.

Wound-Dressers and House Calls: Medical Representations in Whitman and Williams

Robert Leigh Davis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:25:00 PST

Examines Whitman's attitudes toward wounded bodies and argues that "dressing a wound, and writing a poem about dressing a wound (are) equivalent acts in Whitman's imagination"; compares Whitman's emphasis on the "rescuing" function of poetry to William Carlos Williams' emphasis on "defamiliarization" of habits of perception of the body in Spring and All.

The Earliest French Review of Whitman

Ezra Greenspan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:59 PST

Describes Henry Clapp, Jr.'s reprinting of an unknown article from a French periodical "announcing a forthcoming French translation of Leaves of Grass and offering a perceptive prefatory commentary on its poetry," and explores the significance of the announcement of the translation (which was never published) and Whitman's response to the idea of a transatlantic audience.

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:58 PST

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:57 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:57 PST

Whitman in the Popular Media

William White — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:56 PST

Examines Whitman's appearances in the popular media of 1988, including mentions in the The New York Times, Time, Sports Illustrated, and the movie Bull Durham.

Shulman, Robert. Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions, and Donald Pease, Visionary Compacts [review]

M. Wynn Thomas — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:56 PST

Kenneth Burke's Encounters with Walt Whitman

William H. Rueckert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:55 PST

Explores in detail Kenneth Burke's response to Whitman, arguing that "we do not go to Burke for a reading of Whitman … ; we do not go to Burke for knowledge about the making of Leaves of Grass … or for a detailed reading of any poem except 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'" because ultimately Burke's "encounters with Whitman tend to tell us more about Burke than they do about Whitman."

The Text of a Whitman Lincoln Lecture Reading: Anacreon's "The Midnight Visitor"

Arthur Golden — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:55 PST

Introduces and presents the text of Whitman's hand-written copy of a selection from Anacreon's "Ode XXXIII" entitled "The Midnight Visitor," used by Whitman in one of his 1879-1890 lectures on Lincoln.

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:54 PST

Charles Feinberg on Whitman

Charles E. Feinberg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:53 PST

Contains recollections of and tributes to Charles Feinberg by Gay Wilson Allen, Roger Asselineau, Ed Folsom, Arthur Golden, C. Carroll Hollis, Jerome Loving, Edwin Haviland Mimller, and William White; and excerpts of Feinberg's writings on Whitman.

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:53 PST

Recollections of Charles Feinberg

C. Carroll Hollis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:52 PST

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:51 PST

Charles E. Feinberg: A Tribute

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:51 PST

Contains recollections of and tributes to Charles Feinberg by Gay Wilson Allen, Roger Asselineau, Ed Folsom, Arthur Golden, C. Carroll Hollis, Jerome Loving, Edwin Haviland Miller, and William White; and excerpts of Feinberg's writings on Whitman.

Democratic Space: The Ecstatic Geography of Walt Whitman and Frank Lloyd Wright

John F. Roche — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:50 PST

Compares the lives and work of Whitman and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in particular their attitudes toward openness and physical space; finds that Wright was "akin to Whitman in his sensitivity to the presence and importance of American spaciousness" but that he differed from Whitman in that Wright applied "centrifugal necessity to his solution for the congested city in a far more drastic way than the crowd-energized Whitman would have approved" and further that "Wright was less apt to view the spread of democracy as equivalent to the spread of America's boundaries."

Cady, Edwin H. and Louis J. Budd, eds. On Whitman: The Best from American Literature [review]

Donald D. Kummings — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:50 PST

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:49 PST

Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism

Kevin Murphy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:24:49 PST

Examines the relation between Whitman and Functionalist architect Louis Sullivan and uses Whitman's poetry and cultural criticism "as a lens with which we might focus Sullivan's writings on architecture"; emphasizes "the extent to which the social and political assumptions of the two artists determined the experiments in form which each made in his respective art."

Mapping the Lesioned Brain

Annie E. Tye

Morphometrics Research on Megalonyx Scapulae from the Tarkio Valley Ground Sloth Project

Justine C. Hart

Extent of Compliance with Recommended Therapy after Total Knee Replacement and Subsequent Recovery of Knee Joint Function

Tyler Johnston

A novel technique to study the time course of morphological and functional vascular responses to hypertension in conscious rats

Tom A. Salter

A novel technique to study the time course of morphological and functional vascular responses to hypertension in conscious ratsHarald M. Stauss, Katie M. Leick, Jason W. Burkle, Diane L. Rotella, Kevin R. Rarick, Jonathan D. Alterie, Joshua R. Nelson, Thomas A. Salter, Michael J. Harvey, Sung H. Kim, Thomas Ebnet, Michael G. Anderson*Departments of Integrative Physiology and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics*, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IAAssessment of morphological vascular responses to exposure to cardiovascular risk factors in experimental animals requires ex vivo experiments that do not allow assessment of the time course of vascular alterations in individual subjects. We used a slit-lamp biomicroscope (resolution <1 μm) to photograph the long posterior ciliary artery (LPCA) of the iris in conscious normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY, n=10) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR, n=10) on regular-salt diet (RS) and in SHR (n=10) on high-salt diet (HS). The same segment along the LPCA was imaged in consecutive weekly imaging sessions and an imaging software was used to determine the wall to lumen (W/L) ratio. After 4 weeks systolic blood pressure (SBP) did not change in WKY (115�5 vs. 111�5 mmHg) and SHR-RS (148�7 vs. 155�3 mmHg) but increased significantly in SHR-RS (139�5 mmHg vs. 166�6 mmHg, p<0.05). The time course of the changes in W/L ratio of the LPCA mirrored the time course of the SBP changes. While W/L ratio did not change in WKY-RS (+12�10%) and SHR-RS (+18�17%), there was a 39�14% increase in W/L ratio in SHR-HS. Since the LPCA was not dilated pharmacologically the W/L ratio assessed in this study may reflect the combination of morphologic alterations and changes in vascular tone. In vivo imaging of the LPCA may allow assessment of the time course of morphological and functional vascular responses to hypertension in conscious rats.

High Quality Polyester Synthesis from the Renewable Resource Furfural

Olga O. Jennings

Furfural is a promising starting material for renewable chemicals and plastics. Furfural is derived from variety of agricultural byproducts, mainly corn stover. When furfural derivatives such as furan and 5-bromo-2-furfural are irradiated together with ultraviolet light, difuran compounds are formed through a photochemical reaction. These materials are the potential starting blocks used to synthesize biodegradable polymers with excellent mechanical properties and thermal resistance. A protected-difurfural compound has been synthesized in 50-60% yield. However, the initial reactants and solvent can be recovered and reused in a secondary reactor to increase the overall yield of the reaction. Continued research has focused on the deprotection of the compound, its conversion to an alcohol, and polymer synthesis and characterization.

Antibody Mediated Identification of Cyclin G2 and its Role in Cell Cycle Arrest

Eric Mou

Cancer cells have lost control of their divisional regulation, leading to uncontrolled growth. This may eventually lead to invasion (intrusion on and destruction of nearby tissues) and metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via the lymphatic system or bloodstream). In the cell, increased levels of the cell cycle protein Cyclin G2 have been correlated with cell cycle arrest. It has been shown that in many cancer cells, the level of G2 is significantly decreased. Thus, methods of detecting Cyclin G2 levels are important in determining its exact role in cancer development. To accomplish this, antibodies specific to Cyclin G2 were generated by animal immunization, sequentially purified, and then applied to cell samples through immunoblotting. The extent of this antibody attachment allowed for the accurate quantification and evaluation of Cyclin G2 levels in cells.

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:28 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:27 PST

In Memoriam: Evie Allison Allen

Arthur Golden — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:27 PST

Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. Reconstructing American literary history [review]

Robert K. Martin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:26 PST

A Recovered Harry Stafford Letter to Walt Whitman

Arthur Golden — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:25 PST

Presents a recently recovered letter (ca. 1880) from Harry Stafford to Whitman with notes on its verso that appear to be trial titles for a cluster of poems.

Another Harry Stafford Letter

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:25 PST

Supplements Arthur Golden's note in the same issue by presenting another letter from Harry Stafford to Whitman postmarked July 17, 1880.

"This Old Theory Broach'd Anew": Darwinism and Whitman's Poetic Program

Hertha D. Wong — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:24 PST

Emphasizes the scientific basis for much of Leaves of Grass by exploring how Whitman "weaves the Darwinian theory of evolution into a religious, political, and poetic statement."

"Collaborators in the Great Cause of Liberty and Fellowship": Whitmania as an Intercultural Phenomenon

Walter Gr�nzweig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:23 PST

Avoids the "familiar bicultural model" of looking at Whitman in relation to a single country by emphasizing a broader intercultural "network of relationships between Whitmanites from various countries"; explores the promotional efforts of writers, translators, and intellectuals including Johannes Schlaf, Leon Bazalgette, Eduard Bertz, Horace Traubel, and R. M. Bucke.

Walt and Sir Walter or the Bard and the Bart.: Balladeers

John Engell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:22 PST

Seeks to resolve the seeming contradiction between Whitman's love of Sir Walter Scott and the great differences between their works by offering a detailed examination of the likely influences Scott had on Whitman; concludes that the "organic evolution and wholeness of (Leaves of Grass) both recreates and transforms Scott's ballads."

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:21 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:20 PST

Holograph Page of Whitman's "Abraham Lincoln"

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:19 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:18 PST

Additional Whitman Allusions in "Harper's Monthly"

Scott Giantvalley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:17 PST

The Poets Continue to Respond: More Citations of Whitman as Poetic Subject

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:17 PST

Whitman as Poetic Subject: Additional Citations

Edward A. Malone — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:16 PST

Hutchinson, George B. The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism & the Crisis of the Union [review]

David Kuebrich — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:16 PST

Thomas, M. Wynn. The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry [review]

Harold Aspiz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:15 PST

Whitman and Van Gogh: An Exchange

Jan Hulsker — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:15 PST

Offers a critique of Jean Schwind's essay on Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and Whitman (in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Summer 1985), questioning Schwind's identification of the Van Gogh painting and the likelihood it was influenced by Whitman; with a response from Jean Schwind.

Whitman's "Overstaid Fraction": Section 38 of "Song of Myself"

R. W. French — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:14 PST

Seeks a better understanding of Section 38 of "Song of Myself" by attempting to answer three questions about the passage: "What is the 'usual mistake' that the poet discovers? What does it mean to look 'with a separate look'? And what is the 'overstaid fraction' that is resumed?"

The Uncollected Letters of Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman

Kenneth M. Price — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:13 PST

Introduces and presents twelve letters from Hamlin Garland to Whitman, five of which had been previously unpublished; stresses how the letters help to "clarify how Whitman's followers turned (literary) defeat in Boston into a major victory" at a time when "New England's domination of American high culture reached its peak."

Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884"

Nicholas Natanson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:13 PST

Provides a historical context for reading Whitman's late poem "Election Day, November, 1884," emphasizing the contradiction between Whitman's growing disillusion with politics (he did not even vote in the election in question) and his unqualified celebration of "the American ballot ritual."

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:12 PST

Whitman's Dead Canary Bird

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:11 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:11 PST

Pattison, Robert. The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism [review]

R. W. French — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:10 PST

Traubel, Horace, ed. An American Primer by Walt Whitman: with Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript [review]

Arthur Golden — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:09 PST

Whitman, Walt. Tagebuch [Specimen Days] [review]

Walter Gr�nzweig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:09 PST

"Catching the Sign": Catalogue Rhetoric in "The Sleepers"

James Perrin Warren — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:08 PST

Offers a close reading of "The Sleepers" that uses manuscript drafts and comparisons with its "companion piece," "Song of Myself," to explore how Whitman's "catalogue rhetoric" and "syntactic parallelisms" provide keys to understanding the poem.

Shively, Charley, ed. Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Camerados [review]

Scott Giantvalley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:08 PST

Songs of the Canons: Song of Solomon and "Song of Myself"

Emmy Stark Zitter — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:07 PST

Argues for the influence of Song of Solomon in particular and the Old Testament in general on Whitman's poetry, especially "Song of Myself"; contends that Whitman reveals "no real heresy, but rather a return to a more authentic scriptural view of love."

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:06 PST

Sexuality and the Language of Transcendence

Harold Aspiz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:06 PST

Explores various sexual metaphors and allusions in Whitman's poetry (especially "Song of Myself") and argues that "the mightiest sexual drives lead the persona to an intimation of the transcendent state."

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:05 PST

Kronick, Joseph G. American Poetics of History: from Emerson to the Moderns, and Mary Arensberg, ed., The American Sublime [review]

James Perrin Warren — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:04 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:04 PST

Two Citations: An Early Whitman Article and an Early Reprinting of "Death in the School-Room"

William White — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:03 PST

Adds two new citations to Whitman scholarship: an early anonymous article entitled "Our Boston Literary Letter: Whittier, Whitman, Emma Lazarus," and a newly discovered reprinting of Whitman's story "Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" in an 1841 issue of Salem Gazette.

Egyptian Myth and Whitman's "Lilacs"

Rosemary L. Gates — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:02 PST

Uses the Egyptian myth of Osiris as the basis for a sustained reading of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and gives an account of the myth "as found in Whitman's Egyptian sources, principally Sir John Gardner Wilkinson," contending that the "Osiris myth with its obvious analogues to Lincoln, its inherent symbolism of regeneration, and its significance of the dead subject providing new life for the nation supplied Whitman with a mediating body of myth well suited to the situation of Lincoln's death."

Holograph Manuscript of 'Thou Vast Rondure' Comes to Light on Long Island

Joann P. Krieg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:02 PST

Describes the publication history of "Thou Vast Rondure Swimming in Space," including its eventual rejection by John Morley (editor of Fortnightly Review) and James T. Fields (editor of Atlantic Monthly) and presents a transcription of Whitman's manuscript of the poem.

The Rose-Gardens of the World: Near East Imagery in the Poetry of Walt Whitman

Arthur L. Ford — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:01 PST

Explores Whitman's relationship to poetry of the Near East, focusing on "two specific areas of Near East studies: the Persian poets, such as Hafiz and Saadi, who were associated with . . . Sufism, and Egyptology"; applies Whitman's knowledge of the Near East (by way of his reading of texts such as Alger's The Poetry of the East, Emerson's "Persian Poetry" and Glidden's Ancient Egypt) to poems including "Salut au Monde!," "Passage to India," and "Song of the Exposition."

Figures of Transcendence in Whitman's Poetry

Carmine Sarracino — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:00 PST

Employing ideas from the Upanishads, explores Whitman's mysticism in relation to themes of "song and silence" described in early notebooks; argues for a serious understanding of Whitman's "experiences of expanded awareness" in order to "shed light on his desire for simplicity, and at the same time disclose the depth and profundity of those experiences."

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:59 PST

1868 Photograph of Peter Doyle

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:58 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:58 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:57 PST

Whitman's Bel Canto Spider

Joann P. Krieg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:56 PST

Proposes that Whitman's interest in bel canto opera singing suggests an answer to the riddle of why Whitman describes a "noiseless" spider in one of his more lyrical poems.

Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer: a Critical Biography of Walt Whitman and The New Walt Whitman Handbook [review]

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:56 PST

Strict, Straight Notions of Literary Propriety: Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Gradual Unbending to Walt Whitman

Scott Giantvalley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:55 PST

Traces Thomas Wentworth Higginson's gradual evolution from enemy and detractor of Whitman's poetry to seemingly enthusiastic supporter of at least some of Whitman's work; analyzes extracts from Higginson's correspondence regarding Whitman and proposes reasons for the critic's change of heart.

Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker: The Lincoln Connection

Robert J. Havlik — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:54 PST

Describes the importance of the recent discovery of the University of Notre Dame Stoker/Lincoln manuscript and relates its importance to Stoker's encounters with Whitman and the evolution of their relationship; suggests that Whitman may have influenced Stoker's views on Lincoln.

Periodic Structure in "Song of Myself"

Ken Egan Jr. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:53 PST

Explores the nuances of Whitman's strategy of "expansion and contraction of consciousness within 'Song of Myself'" and situates the motif within the larger literary and historical context of the American Renaissance as proposed by F. O. Matthiessen.

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:52 PST

Back Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:55 PST

Henry S. Saunders: A Tribute

William White — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:54 PST

Brief biographical sketch of and tribute to Toronto cellist, collector, bibliographer, and independent Whitman scholar/enthusiast Henry S. Saunders.

Whitman's Sketches for the Spine of the 1856 Edition

C. Carroll Hollis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:54 PST

Introduces two little-known sketches Whitman made for the spine of the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass and discusses Whitman's use of Emerson's words ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career") on the spine and Whitman's "canny and sometimes ruthless" self-promotional campaign.

Notes on the Major Whitman Photographers

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:53 PST

Bibliographic Notes

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:53 PST

Photographs of Whitman, 1840s-1890s

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:52 PST

Notes on Photographs

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:52 PST

Introduction: "This Heart's Geography's Map": The Photographs of Walt Whitman

Ed Folsom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:51 PST

Introduction to a special double issue, "Whitman Photographs," containing 131 photos of Whitman; followed by "Notes on Photographs," pp. 43-62; "Notes on Major Whitman Photographers," pp. 63-71; and "Bibliographic Note," pp. 71-72.

Front Matter

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:50 PST

The Effect of Structural Adjustment Programs on Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania: A Gendered Perspective

Stephanie Enloe

Neural Differentiation of Reprogrammed Human Skin Keratinocytes

Mohammed A. Said

Co-crystallization of Thiophene-based Semiconductors with Carboxylic Acids and Effects on Crystal Packing

Kristin M. Kester

Organic semiconductors are of high interest due to a promise of low cost, flexible electronics. Solid state packing of organic semiconductors impacts electrical properties. We have shown that addition of a semiconductor co-crystal former (SCCF) impacts solid state packing by increasing pi-pi interactions between adjacent semiconductor molecules.1 Here, we report initial findings on how SCCFs with different carboxylic acids affect the solid-state packing of thiophene based semiconductors. 1Sokolov, A. N.; Fričic, T.; MacGillivray, L. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2806-2807

Examining the Effects of VAP on Vinculin

Melissa L. Palma

Road User Study Analysis

Charles N. Hatz

Quantifying the role of manual exploration in nonsolid naming

Johanna B. Burdinie

Purification of factors controlling the elongation phase of transcription by RNA polymerase II

Nicholas Loudas

Development differential gene expression in Danio Rerio

Jessica J. Grabouski

Public Service in Health

Eric R. Reynolds

Public Service In the Field of Law

Patrick D. Hauswald

Early Human Occupation of the Grotte du Bison at Arcy-sur-Cure, France

Neal MacDonald

Creating a pZC320 derivative plasmid that carries fimA-lacZY and fimZY

Kalyani E. Eko

Salmonella infections are contracted by ingestion of contaminated food or water. Salmonella can also cause devastation within agriculture, destroying millions of dollars worth of American produce each year. An alarming occurrence of Salmonella infections takes place in the intestines of poultry, which can then be passed on to humans, causing mild to life-threatening food poisoning. Salmonella utilizes specific genes to regulate its attachment to the intestines of these birds. Based upon this information, we are working on a project create a derivative plasmid containing these particular genes. Eventually we hope to use peptides to reduce or hinder the carriage of Salmonella in chickens so that cases of human salmonellosis resulting from poultry consumption will be significantly reduced.

Effects of an Arthroscopic Meniscectomy on Chrondomalacia of the Knee

Caitlin R. Wooldridge

Cinematizing Atrocity: A Comparison of Darfur Documentaries

Amy Palace

Since 2003 when the Sudanese government unleashed its militia known as the janjaweed on the civilians of Darfur, an estimated 300,000 people were killed in the following two years and 400 villages were destroyed. In September 2004, the Bush administration declared the situation in Darfur a genocide and since then, over 10 documentaries have been created about Darfur, falling across a broad spectrum of style and representation. My research compares three films, All About Darfur, Sand and Sorrow, and On Our Watch. Each must address pressing ethical concerns, both in choosing how to appropriately portray suffering, as well as how to avoid the pitfalls of stereotyping Africa. Each is created for a slightly different audience and I analyze how stylistic differences reflect the differing agendas of each documentary and how each film interprets the role of the international community in the face of a genocide.

Fluorescent Metal Organic Frameworks with Polytopic Tetraphenylethylene-Pyridyl Derivatives

John Widen

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are of major interest in organic chemistry today for their microporous properties, and their potential applications in catalysis, separations, and chemical sensing. Fluorescent MOFs are relatively rare but are attracting attention because of their optical properties. In these applications, MOFs can serve as quantative measuring devices of molecules within the microporous gaps by conversion of light. We are interested in synthesizing fluorescent MOFs based on fluorescent ligands, and more specifically, tetraphenylethylene (TPE) derivatives. For example, a polytopic TPE ligand (1) has been synthesized from 3-pyridyl boronic acid and tetrakis(4-bromo)phenylethylene via Suzuki coupling. This gives a highly conjugated and relatively planar molecule that has four potential binding sights to metal centers within a MOF. The crystal structure of this compound has been obtained, and incorporation of this ligand into new MOFs will be discussed.

Evaluation of a Compliance Chamber Designed to Improve the Performance of an Artificial Lung

Brenton J. Steinmann

Effects of Arts Education on Incarcerated Women and Girls

Rebecca McCray

Cross-Modal Savings in the Contralateral Eyelid During Eyeblink Conditioning in Rats

Eric Buss

This experiment monitored bilateral eyelid responses during eyeblink conditioning in rats using unilateral US presentations. The experiment tested the hypothesis that cross-modal savings occurs when the location of the US is switched. Groups were given paired training but the US location (1), CS modality (2) or both US location and CS modality (3) were changed. Changing the location of the US resulted in an immediate transfer of conditioning in both eyelids (1). Facilitated learning to the new modality CS was observed in both 2 and 3 indicating that savings occurs whether or not the location of the US is changed.

Synthesis of Anti-Tuberculosis Diterpenes

Sena A. Dzakuma

Investigations of the Structure of Varicella Virus Particles in Both Cultures and Humans

Ernesto P. Henderson

Qualitative and Quantitative Characterization of Self-Directed Movements in Premature Infants

Alex L. Einfeldt

Picking the Flowers in the "Fair Garden": The Circulation, Non-Circulation, and Disappearance of Young Adult Nonfiction Materials

Jennifer Burek Pierce — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:33 PST

Research and practitioner publications offer indications of the importance of nonfiction materials to young adult information needs. The present study attempts to discern patterns of adolescent information seeking by analyzing reports of unused and underused materials in the young adult collections of an individual library system. Such an approach contributes to a fuller picture of adolescent information seeking behaviors by complementing existing survey or interview-based research. The analysis shows high use of materials in areas that are nonetheless flagged by computer analysis as non-circulating. Collection analysis indicates that there is evidence that high-use items disappear from the collection at significant rates, that these items have monetary value, and that they cover topics ranging from sex and drugs to rock stars.

What's Harry Potter Doing in the Library? Depictions of Young Adult Information Seeking Behavior in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction

Jennifer Burek Pierce — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:19 PST

This paper uses qualitative, textual analysis of selected prominent contemporary young adult fantasy stories. These books - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Artemis Fowl, and Garth Nix's Lirael - in addition to creating captivating magical worlds, also depict a part of our every day world in their use of libraries as settings (in the case of Harry Potter and Lirael) and the use of computers for information seeking (as seen in Artemis Fowl). These images are examined for their portrayal of library use and other information seeking behaviors.

Conservative British Parliament MPs and Twitter

Drew Bulman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:08:06 PST

Over the last year, the explosion of Twitter as a communication medium-- thanks in large part to the Iran elections--has crept into all walks of life, from celebrities and bloggers to local and national politicians. This report will focus specifically on eight members of the British Conservative (Tory) Party, taking note of their tweeting habits--over two data sets--in regards to both content and consistency.

Retweeting report for MPs in UK

Etse G. Sikanku — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:08:05 PST

This report contains details on research concerning the use of twitminster by British Liberal Democrats

Labour Party in Britain

Jacob Rosenberg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:08:04 PST

Labour 2 Party Report

Will T. Allen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:08:04 PST

Retweet Synthesis

Travis D. Overton — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:08:03 PST

This is a summary of all of the retweeting of all of the reports.

Back Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:15 PST

'Morbid Adhesiveness--To Be Kept Down': Unpublished MS

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:14 PST

Cavitch, David. My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman [review]

Vivian R. Pollak — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:13 PST

Annoucements

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:13 PST

Walt Whitman, 1838-1939: A Reference Guide: Additional Citations

Scott Giantvalley — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:12 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:12 PST

Whitman's Sexual Themes During a Decade of Revision: 1866-1876

M. Jimmie Killingsworth — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:11 PST

Examines Whitman's "double attitude" toward his "poems dealing with sexuality" ("a stubbornness about their importance coupled with a defensiveness bordering on apology or even regret"), focusing on "Calamus" poems (including number 16 ("Who is Now Reading This?") and "You Felons on Trial in Courts") and others (including "Song of Myself" and "A Woman Waits for Me"); critiques arguments by Arthur Golden and Oscar L. Triggs and argues that the "sexual ardor of Leaves of Grass continued to cool throughout the sixties, and the revisionary strategies of the decade beginning in 1866--the dilution of the poetry of the body and the new emphasis on spiritual matters--increased the distance between Whitman the man and the erotic personas of the early editions of Leaves of Grass."

Whitman Allusions in Harper's Monthly to 1900

Daniel A. Wells — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:11 PST

Walt Whitman and Thomas Mann

Robert K. Martin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:10 PST

Details Thomas Mann's evolving fascination with Whitman, emphasizing the impact of the 1922 Reisiger translation of Leaves of Grass and arguing that Mann's reading of the translation "establishes the missing link between Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen of 1918 and Von deutscher Republik of 1922 and contributes to the final form of Der Zauberberg (1922)"; goes on to demonstrate that Whitman "made it possible for (Mann) to imagine a love that was based in the body and yet holy, that was fundamentally homosexual and yet moved through sexuality to social responsibility, that affirmed life rather than death."

Front Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:09 PST

Back Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:08 PST

An Unknown Photograph of Whitman and Harry Stafford

Ed Folsom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:07 PST

Heyen, William. Eight Poems for Saint Walt [review]

Ed Folsom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:06 PST

A Selected Bibliography of Walt Whitman in Chinese (1919-1984)

Xilao Li — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:06 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:06 PST

Freedman, Florence Bernstein. William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight [review]

Roger Asselineau — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:05 PST

The Ending of the 1855 Version of "Song of Myself"

Arthur Golden — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:04 PST

Analyzes consistencies and inconsistencies in Whitman's use of punctuation for line endings in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass to argue against contentions by critics including Jon Bracker and Malcolm Cowley that Whitman intentionally omitted punctuation from the final line of "Song of Myself."

Krieg, Joann P. ed., Walt Whitman: Here and Now; and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire [review]

C. Carroll Hollis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:04 PST

The Art of Walt Whitman's French in "Song of Myself"

Douglas Leonard — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:03 PST

Examines Whitman's use of selective French words in "Song of Myself" to argue that previous critics, including Gay Wilson Allen and Roger Asselineau, may not be giving Whitman "full credit for his use of French"; analyzes Whitman's use of two words in particular, eleves and accoucheur.

Whitman in the (Latest) Soviet View

Jerome Loving — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:02 PST

Examines, in the context of mid-eighties Cold-War culture, the social-centered and often "socialist" Soviet view of Whitman in contrast to the American view of Whitman which emphasizes the poet's self-reliance and personal identity.

Michael Gold on Walt Whitman

Richard Tuerk — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:02 PST

Explores Whitman's influence on author, editor, and avowed Communist Michael Gold, examining Gold's Jews Without Money (1930), his columns for the Daily Worker, and his editing for the New Masses to demonstrate how he "used Whitman repeatedly to demonstrate that Communism with a capital C was the culmination of American culture."

Front Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:01 PST

Walt Whitman in China

Xilao Li — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:46:01 PST

Explores the evolution of Walt Whitman in China beginning with the May Fourth Student Movement in 1919 that generated modern Chinese literature ("New Literature"), and examines the Chinese translators of Whitman who influenced it; describes the work of Tian Han, Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo, Mu Mutian, Chu Tunan, Ai Qing, Xu Chi, and Zhao Luorui, among others.

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:59 PST

Back Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:59 PST

Arthur Lundkvist's Swedish Ode to Whitman

Ed Folsom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:58 PST

Describes Whitman's influence on Swedish poet Arthur Lundkvist and presents an English translation of Lundkvist's poem "Whitman" by Mark Troy, Jeffrey Miller, and Linda Sckenck.

Announcements

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:58 PST

The Culinary Walt Whitman

Louis (Chef Louis) Szathmary — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:57 PST

Describes three items owned by the article's author (a respected chef from Chicago) related to both Whitman and food: an engraving of what may be Whitman in a Civil War soup line, a previously known but lost letter from Whitman to his sister-in-law Louisa Orr Whitman, and a dinner menu from the "Complimentary Dinner given in honor of Whitman's 70th birthday"; includes "an authentic recipe for the main entree" at the dinner.

Hamlin Garland's "The Evolution of American Thought": A Missing Link in the History of Whitman Criticism

Kenneth M. Price — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:56 PST

Introduces and reprints a chapter ("Walt Whitman") from Hamlin Garland's "The Evolution of American Thought," an unpublished late-1880s work exploring the achievement of Whitman and the first essay to argue "that Whitman would influence not only American poetry but also fiction, music, and drama."

Whitman, Emerson, and "The Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss"

Len Gougeon — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:56 PST

Contrasts Whitman's and Emerson's attitudes towards abolition and details the attitudes toward African-Americans that Whitman encountered in Boston; concludes by presenting a "scurrilous satirical work called 'Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss.'"

Front Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:55 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:54 PST

An Unpublished Whitman Letter to John Burroughs

James Perlman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:54 PST

Back Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:54 PST

Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:53 PST

Grier, Edward F., ed. Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman [Vols. 17-22] [review]

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:53 PST

Whitman on War: Four Poems from Drum-Taps

Roberts W. French — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:52 PST

Argues against previous critics' claims that the "order in which the poems appear in Leaves of Grass is of dubious significance" by demonstrating how four poems from Drum-Taps-"Cavalry Crossing a Ford," "Bivouac on a Mountain Side," "An Army Corps on the March," and "By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame"-form a coherent sequence.

Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and Whitman: A Study in Source

Jean Schwind — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:51 PST

Proposes that Whitman was a key influence on Van Gogh's "Starry Night" painting in ways not previously understood, arguing that Van Gogh "was most profoundly moved by the Columbus poems in Leaves of Grass" and demonstrating that "the later Columbian Whitman of 'Passage to India' and 'The Prayer of Columbus' . . . explains more of the painting's imagery and explains it more thoroughly than any current interpretations," linking "Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' to the celestial navigations projected in Whitman's Columbus poems."

Whitman Viewed by Two Southern Gentlemen

W. T. Bandy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:51 PST

Introduces and reprints from Southern Field and Fireside two unrecorded 1860 negative responses to Whitman from Southerners John R. Thompson and Paul Hamilton Hayne.

Front Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:50 PST

Unpublished Prose MS: Idea for a Whitman Poemet

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:49 PST

Back Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:49 PST

An Unknown Whitman Parody

W. T. Bandy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:48 PST

Reprints a previously unknown parody of Whitman from Puck (March 2, 1881).

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:48 PST

Whitman and Van Gogh: Starry Nights and Other Similarities

Hope B. Werness — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:47 PST

Explores the similarities between Whitman's poetry and Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night," with a particular emphasis on their similar use of "star imagery."

Walt Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth": The Image of "Edges" in the Origins of Life

E. L�le Demirt�rk — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:47 PST

Offers a reading of "There Was a Child Went Forth" emphasizing how Whitman's poems reconcile images of edges into the "central edge" of the poem's "shore mud," a gesture that conveys edges as representative of "the origins of life."

Another Early Review of Democratic Vistas

Harold Aspiz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:46 PST

Adds to the "small tally" of contemporaneous reviews of Democratic Vistas by presenting an anonymous favorable review from the Sunderland Times of May 21, 1872."

"Taking All Hints to Use Them": The Sources of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

Michael Vande Berg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:45 PST

Adds to the already significant list of cited sources for "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" by showing how the basic material of the poem "can also be traced to several Tennyson poems, to Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Blake, Shakespeare, The Old Testament, and even to articles of literary criticism that Whitman is known to have had in his possession"; goes on to suggest that Whitman's poetic technique imitates the mockingbird creating an original song out of pieces of other birds' songs.

What Borges Learned from Whitman: The Open Road and Its Forking Paths

Joseph J. Benevento — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:45 PST

Explores Borges' oblique yet vital relation to Whitman by examining how his emphasis on Whitman's "experiment largely focused on a composite persona and an active, participating reader" manifests itself in Borges' fiction, especially by way of his modulation of Whiman's trope of the open road in works like "The Garden of Forking Paths."

Front Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:44 PST

Back Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:43 PST

Whitman: A Current Bibliography

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:42 PST

An Unknown Whitman Letter to an Unknown Editor About an Unknown Piece

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:42 PST

Eben J.-Not Elias J.-Loomis in Whitman's Correspondence and Notebooks

William White — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:41 PST

Clarifies the misidentification of Eben J. Loomis as Elias J. Loomis in a Whitman letter to William D. O'Conner dated June 25, 1982.

Tapscott, Stephen. American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman [review]

E. P. Bollier — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:41 PST

An Unknown "Washington Letter" by Walt Whitman

W. T. Bandy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:40 PST

Reprints "Whitman's last war-time letter to the New York Times," parts of which he published in Memoranda During the War, but parts of which (including a description of freed black soldiers) he never republished.

"I'll Trace This Garden": A Note on a Non-Whitman Attribution

Arthur Golden — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:40 PST

Contends that the "I'll Trace This Garden," a work previously believed to be a poem of Whitman's own creation, was in fact a transcription of a work by someone else, "possibly a ballad he had heard."

"Whitman's Literary Intemperance" : Franklin Evans, or the Power of Love

Anne Dalke — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:39 PST

Defends Whitman's early temperance novel, Franklin Evans, on the grounds that previous critics have only examined "the overt message of the book," when really the novel "functions in fact as a parody of the reform crusade it openly advocates" and substitutes compassion for the "judgmental nature of the typical temperance tract."

The Essential Ultimate Me": Whitman's Achievement in "Passage to India"

Martin K. Doudna — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:38 PST

Defends "Passage to India" against previous critics by offering a reading emphasizing Whitman's own identification with Columbus and his underlying goal in the poem to express "the essential ultimate me": a vision of the poet as threefold reconciler "between Western and Eastern halves of humankind, between humankind and Nature, and between humankind and God."

Poetic Grief-Work in Whitman's "Lilacs"

Jeffrey Steele — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:38 PST

Offers a reading of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," emphasizing the poet's "progressive re-engagement with sensuous reality" and arguing that "the Poet's grief-work consists of a series of operations which ritually reappropriate the world, a world now tinged with death" and that the poem places "symbols of grief within an ongoing life-process."

Front Matter

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:37 PST