3 Body/Spirit: Walt Whitman’s Hicksite Quaker Poetics, 1855

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Elsewheres
7. 1 Material/Immaterial: Frederick Douglass and the ‘Moral Chemistry of the Universe’, 1855 19
8. 2 Earth/Atmosphere: The Leonid Meteor Shower, 1833 29
9. 3 Body/Spirit: Walt Whitman’s Hicksite Quaker Poetics, 1855 41
10. Part II. Excess Identities
11. 4 Latinx/Confederate: Loreta Janeta Velazquez as a Cross-Dressing Soldier, 1861 59
12. 5 Philippines/United States: David Fagen Defects to the Filipino Army, 1899 71
13. 6 White/Not-White: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Racial Transformations, 1839 88
14. 7 Ecology/Radica l Politics: Thoreau’s Science of Civil Disobedience, 1849 101
15. Part III. Chance Encounters
16. 8 Mexico/Britain: A History of Julia Pastrana’s Teeth, 1860–2013 123
17. 9 Matanzas, Cuba/Keswick, England: Maria Gowen Brooks Visits Robert Southey, 1831 146
18. 10 England/New England: A British Quaker and a Fugitive from Slavery Encounter Each Other on a Train, 1850 158
19. Part IV. Impossible Systems
20. 11 Slave Labour/Wage Labour: Reading Bartleby’s Refusals, 1850 177
21. 12 Antiquity/Modernity: An Issue of Puck Magazine, 1889 195
22. 13 Democracy/State: James Fenimore Cooper on the Frontier, 1826/1757 206
23. 14 Ulster, 1785/Pennsylvania, 1817/ Ulster, 1845: James McHenry’s Palimpsest of Anglo Settler Colonialism 222
24. Index 246