A Companion to Walt Whitman Book

	Introduction	1
1	Whitman's life and work, 1819-92	11
2	Journalism	29
3	The city	42
4	Labor and laborers	60
5	Politics	76
6	Oratory	87
7	Slavery and race	101
8	Nation and identity	122
9	A theory of organic democracy	136
10	Imperialism	151
11	Sexuality	164
12	Gender	180
13	Religion and the poet-prophet	197
14	Science and pseudoscience	216
15	Nineteenth-century popular culture	233
16	Opera and other kinds of music	257
17	Nineteenth-century visual culture	272
18	Civil War	290
19	Nature	311
20	Death and the afterlife	325
21	Twentieth-century mass media appearances	341
22	Language	361
23	Style	377
24	Literary contemporaries	392
25	The publishing history of leaves of grass	409
26	The poet's reception and legacy	439
27	The first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass	457
28	"Song of myself"	471
29	"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"	484
30	"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking"	496
31	"Live Oak, with Moss," "Calamus," and "children of Adam"	508
32	Civil War poems in "drum-taps" and "memories of President Lincoln"	522
33	Democratic vistas	540
34	Specimen days	553
35	The prose writings : selected secondary sources	566