剑桥文学指南:沃尔特惠曼

　　本书集中反映了当代西方文学评论界对这位美国本土诗人的生平和作品的最新研究。论文作者从多个方面对惠特曼及其作品进行了新的诠释，探讨的内容涉及美国内战，女权主义、现代主义、摄影、舞蹈，以及诗人晚年诗歌创作风格的变化等等。论文的作者系来自欧美各国的教授、学者，
　　

"list of illustrations
list of contributors
chronology of whitmans life
1 introducti
n_ ezra greensp
n_2 “as if i were with you”-the performance of whitmans poetry
stephen railt
n_3 fratricide and brotherly love:whitman and the civil war
m.wynn thomas
4 reading whitmans postwar poetry
james jperrin warr
n_5 politics and poetry:leaves of grass and the social crisis of the 1850s
david s.reynolds
6 some remarks on the poetics of “participle-loving whitman”
ezra greensp
n_7 “being a woman...i wish to give my own view”:some nineteenth-century womens responses to the 1860 leaves of grass
sherry ceniza
8 appearing in print:illustrations of the self in leaves of grass
ed folsom
9 “i sing the body electric”:isdora duncan,whitman,and the dance