Table of Contents:
  • "Poets to come ... leaving it to you to prove and define it": Lucy Chen, Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and poets unknown / James E. Miller Jr.
  • The voluptuous earth and the fall of the redwood tree: Whitman's personification of nature / M. Jimmie Killingsworth
  • "O divine average!": Whitman's poetry and the production of normality in nineteenth-century American culture / Walter Grünzweig
  • Walt Whitman at the movies: cultural memory and the politics of desire / Kenneth M. Price
  • "Where's Walt?": illustrated editions of Whitman for younger readers / Joel Myerson
  • A dream still invincible?: the Matthiessen tradition / Robert K. Martin
  • Whitman's en masse aesthetics / Sherry Ceniza
  • Public love: Whitman and political theory / Betsy Erkkila
  • Representatives and revolutionists: the new urban politics revisited / M. Wynn Thomas
  • Whitman on Asian immigration and nation-formation / Guiyou Huang
  • Whitman's soul in China: Guo Moruo's poetry in the new culture movement / Liu Rongquiang
  • Pantheistic ideas in Guo Moruo's The goddesses and Whitman's Leaves of grass / Ou Hong
  • Modernity and Whitman's reception in Chinese literature / Wang Ning
  • Gu Cheng and Walt Whitman: in search of new poetics / Liu Shusen
  • Grass and liquid trees: the cosmic vision of Walt Whitman / Roger Asselineau.