Stefan Schöberlein, Zachary Turpin
“Glorious Times for Newspaper Editors and Correspondents”: Whitman at the New Orleans Daily Crescent, 1848-1849
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American Literature Association Conference (May 25-28, 2023)
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The American Literature Association is holding its 34th annual conference in Boston, MA, on May 25-28, 2023. The intention this year is to have a live, in-person conference, so there will be no virtual options for papers and no pre-recorded sessions. Details of the conference, including registration and hotel arrangements, are available at the ALA website.
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Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022
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Walt Whitman’s clippings and notes on brain health and aging (Trent Collection, Duke University Libraries). See pages 189-208.
Front Matter
Essays
“The Battle Trumpet Blown!” : Whitman’s Persian Imitations in Drum-Taps
Roger Sedarat
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 163-188
Discoveries
Walt Whitman, Editor at the New-York Atlas
Stefan Schöberlein, Stephanie M. Blalock, Kevin McMullen and Jason Stacy
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 189-204
Appendix: Athletic Men Wanted—An Article for the Old and Young, for Doctors, Teachers, &c
2022-07-07 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 205-208
"The Indications" (1857): An Early Whitman Imitation
Zachary Turpin
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 209-212
Reviews
Kenneth M. Price. Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet.
Martin T. Buinicki
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 213-216
Morton Schoolman. A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics.
John E. Seery
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 216-219
Nicole Gray, ed. Leaves of Grass (1855) Variorum.
Edward Whitley
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 219-224
Caterina Bernardini. Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945.
Russell Scott Valentino
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 224-226
Stefan Schöberlein, ed. Walt Whitman’s New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles.
T. R. Johnson
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 227-229
Bibliography
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Spring 2022
Ed Folsom
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 230-238
Announcements
In Memoriam: Joel Myerson (1945-2021)
Ezra Greenspan
2022-07-08 Volume 39 • Issue 4 • 2022 • 239-240