Further Reading
Beach, Christopher. The Politics of Distinction:
Whitman and the Discourses of Nineteenth-Century
America. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press,
1996.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Walt Whitman. Broomall, PA: Chelsea
House Publishers, 1999.
Erkkila, Betsy and Jay Grossman. Breaking Bounds:
Whitman and American Cultural Studies. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996.
Greenspan, Ezra, ed. Cambridge Companion to Walt
Whitman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995.
Mancuso, Luke. The Strange Sad War Revolving:
Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of
Black Citizenship, 1865-1876. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997.
Morris, Roy. The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in
the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Schmidgall, Gary. Walt Whitman: A Gay Life.
Dutton, New York, 1997.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Bantam
Books, 1983.