List of Illustrations List of Contributors Chronology of Whitmans Life 1 Introduction EZRA GREENSPAN 2 “As If I Were With You”-The Performance of Whitmans poetry STEPHEN RAILTON 3 Fratricide and Brotherly Love:Whitman and the Civil War M.WYNN THOMAS 4 Reading Whitmans Postwar Poetry JAMES JPERRIN WARREN 5 Politics and Poetry:Leaves of Grass and the Social Crisis of the 1850s DAVID S.REYNOLDS 6 Some Remarks on the Poetics of “Participle-Loving Whitman” EZRA GREENSPAN 7 “Being a Woman...I Wish to Give My Own View”:Some nineteenth-Century Womens Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass SHERRY CENIZA 8 Appearing in Print:Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass ED FOLSOM 9 “I sing the Body Electric”:Isdora Duncan,Whitman,and the Dance RUTH L.BOHAN 10 Walt Whitman:Precipitant of the Modern ALAN TRACHTENBERG 11 Borgess “Song of Myself” FERNANDO ALERIA Suggestions for Further Reading Index Whitmans Writings