Abstract
Reconstruction comments on Whitman’s poems from Angus Fletcher, Luke Mancuso, Randall Fuller, Alice Fahs, Joel Porte, Paul Fussell. Whitman’s Democratic Vistas and his poems, “November Boughs,””Pensive on her Dead Gazing,” “Song of the Redwood Tree,” and “Weave In, My Hardy Life,” and others.
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Neil Schmitz, “Forms of Regional Humor,” Columbia Literary History of the United States, ed. Emory Elliott. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988: 306.
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Angus Fletcher, “Book of a Lifetime,” Marcus and Sollors, 311.
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Luke Mancuso. The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865–1876. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997: 70.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 300–02. See also Martin Buinicke, Walt Whitman, 3.
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Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 9 volumes. New York: Appleton, 1908. Vol. 1: 130–33.
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Whitman, “Specimen Days,” Library, 776.
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Whitman, “November Boughs,” Library, 1179–80.
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Whitman, “Pensive on Her Dead Gazing,” Library, 605–6.
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Alice Fahs, Popular Literature, 98.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 302.
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Randall Fuller, From Battlefields Rising, 218.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 238. Loving points out that the word “homosexual” came into the language in 1892. Innuendo was the more likely process of reading sexual texts (270).
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Lawson, Walt Whitman, 455–56.
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Betsy Erkkila,Whitman the Political Poet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989: 206.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 296.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 297.
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Henry James, Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers and English Writers, 1984: 633.
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Joel Porte, Representative Man, 332–33.
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Martin Buinicke, Walt Whitman’s Reconstruction, 5–6, 26.
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Whitman. “Song of the Redwood Tree,” Library, 351–55.
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Paul Fussell, The Great War, 235, 253.
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Paul Fussell, The Great War, 231.
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Whitman, “Entering a Long Farm-Lane,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 781.
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Whitman, “New Themes Entered Upon,” “Specimen Days,” Library, 480–1.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 306–8.
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Whitman, Democratic Vistas, Library, 944–45.
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Angus Fletcher, “The Book of a Lifetime,” Marcus and Sollors, 311.
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Whitman, Democratic Vistas, Library, 961–62. He adds that no one wants “a class of supercilious infidels, who believe in nothing.”
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Whitman, Democratic Vistas, Library, 970, 982note.
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Whitman, Democratic Vistas, Library, 982, 987.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 332.
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Whitman, “Weave In, My Hardy Life,” Library, 590–91.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). Reconstruction. In: Walt Whitman. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7_13
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