The erotic Whitman
Title:
The erotic Whitman
JLCTITLE245:
Vivian R. Pollak.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, ©2000.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780520221895
9780520221901
Reading Level:
1550 L Lexile
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-244) and index.
Personal Subject:
Contents:
1. The Erotics of Youth. Family Faces. Boarding at the Brentons. A First Friendship -- 2. Why Whitman Gave Up Fiction -- 3. Interleaf: From Walter to Walt -- 4. Faith in Sex: Leaves of Grass in 1855-56. Twenty-Eight Young Men. The Flesh and the Appetites. The Twenty-Ninth Bather -- 5. The Politics of Love in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. Enfans d'Adam. Calamus -- 6. Whitman Unperturbed: The Civil War and After -- 7. "In Loftiest Spheres": Whitman's Visionary Feminism.