Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography

Prologue

1: “Underneath All, Nativity”: Literary Genealogy, Literary Geography

2: A Brooklyn Boyhood: Sights, Surroundings, Influences

3: Dark Passages: Teaching and Early Authorship

4: Mannahatta: The Literary Marketplace and Urban Reality

5: “The United States Need Poets”: The Political and Social Crisis

6: American Performances: Theater, Oratory, Music

7: “Sex Is the Root of It All”: Eroticism and Gender

8: Earth, Body, Soul: Science and Religion