Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Abbreviations Of Whitman's Works -- 1. Whitman, Washington, And The Convulsiveness Of Civil War -- 2. Whitman As A Paradoxical Missionary To The Wounded -- The Missionary And Transmission: Scribal Writing And Fluid Identity -- Sacred Bereavement And The Complexities Of Remembering And Forgetting -- 3. Strayed Cattle: Anti-pastoralism In Whitman's War Writings -- American Pastoralism -- Cattle, Chattel, And The Anti-pastoral The Pastoral Hut, The Urban Shanty, And The Grand Mausoleum -- 4. Social Calamity, Personal Perturbations, And Office Decorum: How Leaves Of Grass Grew Pensive -- 5. Multi-racial Democracy And Black Democratic Vistas -- Whitman's Silences -- From Blue Ontario's Shore To Democratic Vistas -- Andrew Johnson, The Klan, And Whitman's Postwar Vistas -- Why Did He Ossify And Can We Learn From The Late Whitman? -- The Paradoxes Of A National Poet -- Works Cited -- Index Kenneth M. Price. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.