《劍橋文學指南：沃爾特·惠特曼》是《劍橋文學指南》叢書中的一種。作為一本紀念惠特曼逝世100周年的論文集，《劍橋文學指南：沃爾特·惠特曼》集中反映了當代西方文學評論界對這位美國本土詩人的生平和作品的最新研究，論文的作者繫來自歐美各國的教授、學者，他們以當代人的視角，從多個方面對這位影響巨大而又頗具爭議的詩人及其作品進行了新的詮釋。探討的內容涉及美國內戰、女權主義、現代主義、攝影、舞蹈，以及詩人晚年詩歌創作風格的變化等。有的論及詩人在美國內戰期間的創作活動，尤其是在戰爭中服役的弟弟對他的創作和情感的影響；有的重新審視了《草葉集》中對女性的處理，並從女權主義視角對作品進行了分析；有的探討了19世紀中葉美國的社會和政治運動對詩人的影響；有的對惠特曼與非印刷媒體的密切關繫的思想框架進行了追溯，分析了詩人對攝影的畢生愛好以及他在書籍裝幀上對新技術進行的實驗；有的就詩人對現代人的影響進行了回顧：有的論述了惠特曼與現代舞蹈的關繫：有的則探討了詩人對20世紀50年代拉丁美洲文學的影響。

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Chronology of Whitman‘s Life
I Introduction
EZRA GREENSPAN
z “As Ifl Were With You -The Performance of Whitman’s Poetry
STEPHEN RAILTON
3 Fratricide and Brotherly Love: Whitman and the Civil War
M. WYNN THOMAS
4 Reading Whitman‘s Postwar Poetry
JAMES PERRIN WARREN
5 Politics and Poetry: Leaves of Grass
and the Social Crisis of the i850s
DAVID S. REYNOLDS
6 Some Remarks on the Poetics of “Participle-Loving Whitman
EZRA GREENSPAN
7 “Being a Woman . . . I Wish to Give My Own View”: Some Nineteenth-Century Women’s Responses to the 1860
Leaves of Grass
SHERRY CENIZA
8 Appearing in Print: Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass
ED FOLSOM
g “I Sing the Body Electric : Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Dance
RUTH L. BOHAN
10 Walt Whitman: Precipitant of the Modern
ALAN TRACHTENBERG
11 Borges‘s “Song of Myself”
FERNANDO ALEGRfA
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
Whitman’s Writrngs

Implicit in Whitman‘s portrayals of men at war and in the military hospi-tals was the view that they constituted an alternative and superior society，the redeemed society of his visionary America. By contrast， the civilian society of actual wartime America was for him “the world of gain and appearance and mirth he stigmatized in “The Wound Dresser. His deep mistrust of the power of money in the boonung capitalist society of the North led him to emphasize that a different “currency” circulated in the hospitals - a currency of love and affeaion symbolized， as he explained in Spec伽len Days， both by the little gifts he brought the men and the caresses he exchanged with them: “Another thing became clear to me - wlule cash is not amiss to bring up the rear， tact and magnetic sympathy and unction are， and ever will be， sovereign still”（Prose Works l， 82）. Drum-Taps is， there-fore， a book that sought to replace the cash nexus that was coming to dominate existing northern society with a network of intimate， comradely relationships.
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