The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman [Hardcover]

AHandbookon Walt Whitman that reflects the best new work in the field including chapters that set his work within the context of digital scholarship, discussion of new manuscript discoveries and transcriptions, exploration of environmental angles on Whitman, and a focus on disability studies.More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the publication of a long-lost Whitman novel,Jack Engle, along with a hitherto unknown health guide for urban men and previously undiscovered poems. Myriad other documents have become more readily available, including largely unmined troves of journalism, narrative and documentary prose, and experimental note-keeping.Leaves of Grassand Whitman's literary life as a whole are thus ripe for reconsideration.The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitmanembraces this expanded view of Whitman and charts new pathways in Whitman Studies by bringing in new perspectives, methods, and contexts.Introduction,Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Sch?berleinPart 1. Reading and Writing Whitman1. Whitman Left to his own Devices,Ed Folsom2. Walt Whitman's Archive,Matt Cohen and Ashlyn Stewart3. Making the Cut: Whitman's Excisions and Their Consequences,Kenneth M. Price and Caterina BernardiniPart 2. Notebooks, Scrapbooks, and Mutant Books4. Whitman's Prodigal Pictures ,Nicole Gray5. Taking a Page Out of Whitman's Scrapbook: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Poet's Composition Process,Kevin McMullen6. Whitman's Paginator: A Case Study in the Interpretation of Mutant Books,Blake Bronson-BartlettPart 3. Whitman and Data, Whitman as Data7. Whitman's Secret Publications,Zachary Turpin8. Rambles Among Worlƒ)