Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work

This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer's life with an examination of his works.· 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 Content: Chapter 1 Growing Up in the Age of Accelerating Print: Whitman as Printer, Journalist, Teacher, and Fiction Writer (pages 1–16): Chapter 2 “Many Manuscript Doings and Undoings”: The Road toward Leaves of Grass (pages 17–40): Chapter 3 “I was Chilled with the Cold Types and Cylinder and Wet Paper Between Us”: The First and Second Editions of Leaves of Grass (pages 41–59): Chapter 4 Intimate Script and the New American Bible: “Calamus” and the Making of the 1860 Leaves of Grass (pages 60–75): Chapter 5 Blood?Stained Memoranda (pages 76–97): Chapter 6 Reconstructing Leaves of Grass, Restructuring a Life (pages 98–116): Chapter 7 Dying into Leaves (pages 117–129):