Abstract
Whitman’s essay “Origins of Attempted Secession” illustrates what Nina Silver calls “the romance of reunion,” a way to pretend the South was not treasonous. More poems bought by magazines, “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” “Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,” “Proud Music of the Storm,” “Passage to India.”
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Whitman, “Origins of Attempted Secession,” Library, 994.
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Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962: 184.
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Nina Silber, The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
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Whitman, “Origins of Attempted Secession,” Library, 999.
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David A. Davis, “African American Literature, Citizenship, and War, 1863–1932,” War and American Literature, 166–79.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 328–30.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 324–31; as Randall Fuller points out, it was because Whitman had known Theodore Winthrop from his Pfaff’s drinking days, that he understood the power of personal acquaintance. Before Winthrop had been killed in the war, he regularly wrote for The Atlantic Monthly. (Fuller, From Battlefields Rising, 24–25.).
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Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” Library, 564.
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Whitman, “Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood,” Library, 568–73.
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Whitman, “Proud Music of the Storm,” Library, 525–30.
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Loving, Walt Whitman, 330–31.
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Whitman, “Passage to India,” Library, 531–40.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2021). Suggestions of Success. In: Walt Whitman. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77665-7_14
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