1. Whitman the Citizen Poet An Evolving Bibliography These and all else were to me the same as they are to you, I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river, The men and women I saw were all near to me, Others the same—others who look back on me because I look’d forward to them… “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Leaves of Grass (1891-92)

2. Baseline Bibliography Walt Whitman and the Citizen’s Eye James Dougherty (1993) Art and Photography Artists and Photographers (Jacob Riis, John Sloan, Alfred Steiglitz, Charles Sheeler, Berenice Abbott) Poets (T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams) Historical Research Standard Biography Queer Studies Feminism

3. Parks & Landscape Joseph C. Murphy’s “Distant Effects: Whitman, Olmsted, and the American Landscape” (2005) Jill Wacker’s “Sacred Panorama: Walt Whitman and New York City Parks” (1994)

4. Not so Romantic Maria Farland’s “Decomposing City: Walt Whitman’s New York and the Science of Life and Death” (2007) J.M. Tyree’s “Thoreau, Whitman, and the Matter of New York” (2006)

5. Whitman as “Flâneur” Bonnie Carr’s “Whitman’s Legacy of Love and the Challenge of Public Space” (2005) William Pannapacker’s “The City” (2006)

6. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Alan Trachtenberg’s “Whitman’s Lesson of the City” (1996) James Dougherty’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (2006)

7. The City Papers Joann P. Krieg’s “Walt Whitman and the City” (2009) Simon Parker’s “Unrhymed Poetry: New York City, The Popular Newspaper Page, and the Forms of Whitman’s Poetry” (1999)

8. Major New York Events M. Wynn Thomas’s “Representatives and Revolutionists: The New Urban Politics Revisited” (2002) Ed Cutler’s “Passage to Modernity: Leaves of Grass and the 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition in New York” (1998) Edward Whitley’s “Whitman’s Occasional Nationalism: ‘A Broadway Pageant’ and the Space of Public Poetry” (2009)

9. New York: Then and Now Peter Baldwin’s “The City that Never Slept” (2007) Andrew Lawson’s Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle (2006)

10. Where do we go from here? Merge New Historicism with some of America’s main concerns today: – Environmental Issues – Economic Concerns – Animal Cruelty

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