Essays
Author: Nick Mason-Browne
Suggests Whitman's problematic relationship to fiction, both as a writer of fiction and as a character in fiction, and discusses the fictional Whitman in works by Cameron Rogers, John Erskine, Elizabeth Corbett, Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams, and others, with a focus on Whitman's often iconographic appearance in Civil War stories by William Douglas O'Connor, Fred Chappell, Chris Adrian, Allan Gurganus, and Richard Selzer.
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How to Cite: Mason-Browne, N. (2005) “"Terrible, Beautiful Days": The Semifictional Whitman”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 22(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1771