"List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsChronology of Whitmans Life1 IntroductiN_ EZRA GREENSPN_2 “As If I Were With You”-The Performance of Whitmans poetry STEPHEN RAILTN_3 Fratricide and Brotherly Love:Whitman and the Civil War M.WYNN THOMAS4 Reading Whitmans Postwar Poetry JAMES JPERRIN WARRN_5 Politics and Poetry:Leaves of Grass and the Social Crisis of the 1850s DAVID S.REYNOLDS6 Some Remarks on the Poetics of “Participle-Loving Whitman” EZRA GREENSPN_7 “Being a Woman...I Wish to Give My Own View”:Some nineteenth-Century Womens Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass SHERRY CENIZA8 Appearing in Print:Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass ED FOLSOM9 “I sing the Body Electric”:Isdora Duncan,Whitman,and the Dance RUTH L.BOHN_10 Walt Whitman:Precipitant of the Modern ALAN TRACHTENBERG11 Borgess “Song of Myself” FERNANDO ALERIASuggestions for Further ReadingIndexWhitmans Writings"