TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollak Vivian R
TI  - The erotic Whitman
SN  - 0520221893 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS3242.S47 
U1  - 811/.3 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Whitman Walt
KW  - Sex in literature
KW  - Male homosexuality in literature
KW  - Homosexuality and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-244) and index; 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
ER  -