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Contents Acknowledgments / ix Abbreviations / xi 1 Walt Whitman’s Reconstruction / 1 2 Periodicals, Politics, and the New Paper World / 15 3 Whitman and the Elusive Site of Memory / 49 4 “By the Roadside” and Whitman’s Narrative of Poetic (Re)Awakening / 77 5 Whitman’s General / 109 6 Reconstructing His Story / 134 Notes / 151 Bibliography / 169 Index / 177 ...

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