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Contents Preface ix Introduction: xiii Whitman East and West ed folsom Abbreviations xxv “Poets to Come . . . Leaving It to You to Prove and Define It”: 1 Lucy Chen, Whitman, T. S. Eliot, and Poets Unknown james e. miller jr. The Voluptuous Earth and the Fall of the Redwood Tree: 14 Whitman’s Personifications of Nature m. jimmie killingsworth “O Divine Average!”: Whitman’s Poetry and the Production of Normality in 26 Nineteenth-Century American Culture walter grünzweig Walt Whitman at the Movies: 36 Cultural Memory and the Politics of Desire kenneth m. price “Where’s Walt?”: 71 Illustrated Editions of Whitman for Younger Readers joel myerson A Dream Still Invincible?: 97 The Matthiessen Tradition robert k. martin Whitman’s En Masse Aesthetics 105 sherry ceniza Public Love: Whitman and Political Theory 115 betsy erkkila Representatives and Revolutionists: The New Urban Politics Revisited 145 m. wynn thomas Whitman on Asian Immigration and Nation-Formation 159 guiyou huang Whitman’s Soul in China: 172 Guo Moruo’s Poetry in the New Culture Movement liu rongqiang Pantheistic Ideas in Guo Moruo’s The Goddesses and 187 Whitman’s Leaves of Grass ou hong Modernity and Whitman’s Reception in Chinese Literature 197 wang ning Gu Cheng and Walt Whitman: 208 In Search of New Poetics liu shusen Grass and Liquid Trees: 221 The Cosmic Vision of Walt Whitman roger asselineau Contributors 229 Index 233 ...