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Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise
• The building of a reputation
• Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions
• The character of Whitman's religion
• The creed
• The mystic hypothesis
• The strong hypothesis
• The weak hypothesis
• The denial of the hypothesis
• A gospel of beauty
• The classical roots of aestheticism
• Whitman and the platonic tradition
• From phrenology to aesthetic morality
• Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision
• Whitman and Nietzsche
• Whitman and Oscar Wilde
• The love of comrades
• A messianic mission
• The nature of comradeship

• Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality
• Mystical interpretations of comradeship
• Ethical aspects of comradeship
• Religious aspects of comradeship
• Social and political aspects of comradeship
• Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love
• Whitman, the moral reformer
• Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern
• The character of Whitman's new morality
• An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory
• Whitman's attitude to war
• Robert K. Martin's theory : "fucked by the earth"
• David Keubrich's theory : post-Christian millennialism
• Reynolds's theory : "immoral didacticism"
• A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory
• An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth
• A queer (theory) postscript
• A queer (theory) twist : no new species
• Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy
• Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.

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Author/Creator:

Herrero-Brasas, Juan A.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship: homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity [by Herrero-Brasas, J.A.]

Subjects:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 — Relations with men.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 — Friends and associates

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 — Ethics

Poets, American — 19th century — Biography

Gay men — United States — Biography

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

1800-1899

Friends and associates

Ethics

Poets, American

Gay men.

Relations with men.

United States

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PS3232 .H47 2010

ISBNs:

9781438430119 (hardcover, alk. paper)
1438430116 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009021078

OCLC Numbers:

367420709