Pollak Vivian R <br/><br/>
The erotic Whitman / 
Vivian R. Pollak. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2000. 
 - xxiv, 261 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-244) and index. 
<br/><br/>1. The Erotics of Youth. Family Faces. Boarding at the Brentons. A First Friendship -- 2. Why Whitman Gave Up Fiction -- 3. Interleaf: From Walter to Walt -- 4. Faith in Sex: Leaves of Grass in 1855-56. Twenty-Eight Young Men. The Flesh and the Appetites. The Twenty-Ninth Bather -- 5. The Politics of Love in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. Enfans d'Adam. Calamus -- 6. Whitman Unperturbed: The Civil War and After -- 7. "In Loftiest Spheres": Whitman's Visionary Feminism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520221893 (alk. paper) 0520221907 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Whitman Walt 18191892 --Criticism and interpretation<br/>Whitman Walt 18191892 --Knowledge--Sex
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex in literature<br/>Male homosexuality in literature<br/>Homosexuality and literature--History--United States--19th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3242.S47 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811/.3