Re-Scripting Walt Whitman An Introduction to His Life and Work [Paperback]

· An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman.

· Weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works.

· Focuses especially on Whitman’s evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass.

· Examines the material conditions and products of Whitman’s “scripted life”, including his original manuscripts.

· Investigates Whitman’s “life in print” – his belief that he could literally embody himself in his books.

· Linked to a large electronic archive of Whitman’s work at www.whitmanarchive.org

List of Abbreviations of Whitman’s Works.

Introduction.

1 Growing up in the Age of Accelerating Print: Whitman as Printer, Journalist, Teacher, and Fiction Writer.

2 “Many Manuscript Doings and Undoings”: The Road toward Leaves of Grass.

3 “I Was Chilled with the Cold Types and Cylinder and Wet Paper Between Us”: The First and Second Editions of Leaves of Grass.

4 Intimate Script and the New American Bible: “Calamus” and the Making of the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

5 Blood-Stained Memoranda.

6 Reconstructing Leaves of Grass, Restructuring a Life.

7 Dying into Leaves.

Appendix: What Whitman Left Us.

References.

Index&llS