The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990), To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004), and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). His most recent book is Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City (Oxford, 2020). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing. Stefan Schöberlein is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He also serves as contributing editor for the Whitman Archive and associate editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His scholarship related to Whitman has appeared in journals such as American Literature, College Literature, and Textual Cultures. He is the author of Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880 (OUP, 2023).

Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein: Introduction
Part 1. Reading and Writing Whitman
1: Ed Folsom: Whitman Left to his own Devices
2: Matt Cohen and Ashlyn Stewart: Walt Whitman's Archive
3: Kenneth M. Price and Caterina Bernadini: Making the Cut: Whitman's Excisions and Their Consequences
Part 2. Notebooks, Scrapbooks, and Mutant Books
4: Nicole Gray: Whitman's Prodigal "Pictures"
5: Kevin McMullen: Taking a Page Out of Whitman's Scrapbook: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Poet's Composition Process
6: Blake Bronson-Bartlett: Whitman's Paginator: A Case Study in the Interpretation of Mutant Books
Part 3. Whitman and Data, Whitman as Data
7: Zachary Turpin: Whitman's Secret Publications
8: Stefan Schöberlein: Rambles Among Words: Whitman in the Etymological Thicket
9: Edward Whitley: Whitman and Poe's Literary Networks
10: Micah Bateman: Whitman's Web: The Political Poet 2.0
Part 4. Fitness, and Struggle, and the Nation
11: Peter Riley: "Arm, fortify, harden, make lithe, himself": "Manly Health," German Turners, and Whitman's Poetics of Training
12: Sascha Pöhlmann: Urbanity, Biopolitics, and Race in Whitman's "Manly Health and Training"
13: Matt Miller: Walt Whitman: Poet of Prizefighters
Part 5. Whitman, Chronicler of City life
14: Jason Stacy: Walt Whitman's Print Personas: 1840-1865
15: Adam Bradford: "Move Slowly Through that Beautiful Place of Graves:" Walt Whitman's Cemeteries
16: Glenn Hendler: Walt Whitman and the Police
Part 6. Whitman's Natures
17: Sean Meehan and John Durham Peters: "What is it, then, between us?": Whitman's Elemental Media
18: Emily Waples: Whitman's Atmospheres
19: Christine Gerhardt: Whitman's Garden Ecology of Transformation
20: Tom Gannon: "Flights and Songs and Screams": Walt Whitman's Birds
Part 7. Embodied Variants
21: Ralph James Savarese and Pilar Martinez Benedi: Backhanded Compliments, Or Rehabilitating Rehabilitation in Whitman
22: Don James McLaughlin: An Idle Criticism: Whitman as Disability Theorist in "How I Get Around at 60, and Take Notes"
23: Lindsay Tuggle: "The Dark Bequest:" Inheriting Whitman's Unworldly Specimens
Part 8. Inscribing Identity
24: Timothy Robbins: Walt Whitman, Daniel Garrison Brinton and the Poetics of an "American" Ethnology
25: Jeffrey Einboden: Indigenous Glyphs, Granite Inscriptions: From Mazinaw to the Middle East with Whitman's Leaves
26: Jacob Wilkenfeld: "O baffled, balked": Interrogating the Poetics of Absorption in Whitman's 1860 Leaves of Grass Cluster
Part 9. Whitman Networks, Global and National
27: Walter Grünzweig: "Solidarity of the World": Walt Whitman as an International Poet
28: Liu Shusen: Whitman in China: Uncovering his Early Reception from 1870 to 1920
29: Bojana A'camovi'c: "That's Me, Not Whitman": Tin Ujevi'c and Ivan V. Lali'c as Whitman's Yugoslav poet-translators
30: Vivian Pollak: Walt Whitman and Muriel Rukeyser Among the Jews
31: Dara Barnat: Walt Whitman in Jewish American Poetry: Charles Reznikoff and Allen Ginsberg