Walt Whitman in Context

Description

Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.

Joanna Levin is an associate professor and chair of the English Department at Chapman University, California. She is the author of Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 and co-editor, with Edward Whitley, of Whitman among the Bohemians (2014). Edward Whitley is an associate professor in the English Department at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet (2010) and co-editor, with Joanna Levin, of Whitman among the Bohemians (2014).