CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. INTRODUCTION: WHITMAN AND THE ‘LAWLESS MUSIC’ OF AMERICAN CULTURE 1
6. Transnational Contexts of Nineteenth-Century US Discourse
7. CHAPTER 1 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY INTELLECTUAL FIELD 17
8. CHAPTER 2 US DISCOURSE AND THE EXPRESSIVIST TURN 49
9. Representative Authors
10. CHAPTER 3 THE POET AS ORPHIC SINGER: RALPH WALDO EMERSON 73
11. CHAPTER 4 WALT WHITMAN AND THE POETRY OF THE FUTURE 101
12. Conceptual Fields of US Culture
13. CHAPTER 5 THE MUSIC OF AMERICA 131
14. Chapter 6 NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE SMELL OF THE WOODS 160
15. Chapter 7 THE DEMOCRATIC MUSE 195
16. Inventing whitmanian authority
17. Chapter 8 CONTEMPORARY RECEPTION 237
18. Chapter 9 WHITMAN AMONG THE MODERNS 247
19. EPILOG: AFTER THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE 256
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 261
21. INDEX 289