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Whitman, Walt. Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale Of The Times., Ed. Christopher Castiglia And Glenn Hendler [Review], Jon Miller Aug 2015

Whitman, Walt. Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale Of The Times., Ed. Christopher Castiglia And Glenn Hendler [Review], Jon Miller

Jon Miller

No abstract provided.


"Father Walt": Frances Willard And Walt Whitman, Jon Miller Aug 2015

"Father Walt": Frances Willard And Walt Whitman, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

No abstract provided.


Petroleum V. Nasby, Poet Of Democracy, And His "Psalm Of Gladness", Jon Miller Aug 2015

Petroleum V. Nasby, Poet Of Democracy, And His "Psalm Of Gladness", Jon Miller

Jon Miller

Reprints David Ross Locke’s parodic letter-poem (written in the persona of “whiskey-addicted Copperhead” Petroleum V. Nasby), “A Psalm of Gladness—The Veto of the Civil Rights Bill, and other Matters, occasioning a Feeling of Thankfulness in the Minds of the Democracy,” and analyzes how the satire “associates Nasby’s style of ‘jubilation’ with the poetry of Walt Whitman,” showing how “the satire does not attack Whitman’s verse so much as it condemns it by association with the style of Nasby.”


"Dear Miss Ella": George L. Chase's Whitman-Inspired Love Letters, Jon Miller Aug 2015

"Dear Miss Ella": George L. Chase's Whitman-Inspired Love Letters, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

Analyzes and reprints Minnesota minister Chase's 1872 courtship letters to Ella Wheeler, in which Chase, who knew Whitman, writes at length about Whitman and his work.


Making Scholarly Editions In The Classroom, Jon Miller Dec 2008

Making Scholarly Editions In The Classroom, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

An alternative to the traditional research paper, the scholarly edition has much to offer students and professors of American literature. By "scholarly edition" I mean a single document that includes a primary text, a note on the text, a paper that summarizes and interprets the text, short endnotes glossing the text, and a bibliography. All of us are familiar with the popular scholarly editions of literary works published for the college classroom by Norton, Broadview, Bedford, and many other scholarly presses. But not all have considered the creation of shorter yet comparable works as an assignment for the undergraduate and …