Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship: Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Iwould like to thank John Orr, Don Miller, and Bill May of the University of Southern California School of Religion, as well as Lincoln Davis, Javier Anso, Pilar Gómez Aláez, and Todd James and the Capital Group for all the ways in which, at different stages, they supported the preparation of this project. My sincere gratitude goes also to John Mason, former dean of Humanities at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) for his kind encouragement. I am also indebted to Linda Jones, of the CSUN Religious Studies Department, for her technological assistance, which made it possible for me to submit the final draft of the manuscript in a timely manner. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to the Huntington Library of San Marino, California for providing the resources and environment that were vital for the completion of my book. ...