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):