Proceedings of a scholarly conference held at Hofstra University.
"Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Whitman in the eighties: a bibliographical essay": pages 217-224.
Greetings / Charles Feinberg -- The Whitman "industry" : introductory remarks / William White -- Whitman and the biographers / Justin Kaplan -- The critical heritage : "hot little prophets" and Johnnies-come-lately / Milton Hindus -- Walt Whitman and the new morality : contemporary reconsiderations / James T.F. Tanner -- Reading Whitman psychoanalytically / Stephen A. Black -- Drum-taps and nineteenth-century male homosexual literature / Joseph Cady -- "Hints ... faint clews and indirections" : Whitman's homosexual disguises / Alan Helms -- Walt Whitman's pose and the ethics of sexual liberation / M.J. Killingsworth -- Walt Whitman, feminist / Harold Aspiz -- Whitman's world view : a contemporaneous message / Howard L. Parsons
Whitman's body, Whitman's language / Jon Rosenblatt -- Running aground in Barnegat Bay : Whitman's symbols and their rhetorical intentionalities / Gregory M. Haynes -- The lament in "Song of the broad-axe" / David Cavitch -- Whitman's democratic vista in the first Leaves of grass / Jerome Loving -- The American context of Democratic vistas / Robert J. Scholnick -- Whitman's Drum-taps reviewed : the good, gray, tender mother-man and the fierce, red, convulsive rhythm of war / William Burrison -- Whitman's re-vision of Emersonian ecstasy in "Song of Myself" / John Gatta, Jr. -- Lear and the Leaves of grass poet / Dennis K. Renner -- Kingdom of this world : Whitman and Nietzsche compared / Adrian Del Caro -- Whitman in the eighties : a bibliographical essay / William White