@article{347600,
      note = {"The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities  imprint"--Prelim. p.},
      author = {Genoways, Ted.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/347600},
      title = {Walt Whitman and the Civil War : America's poet during the  lost years of 1860-1862 /},
      publisher = {University of California Press,},
      abstract = {Shortly after the third edition ofLeaves of Grasswas  published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the  literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George  was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later.  Past critics have tended to read this silence as evidence  of Whitman's indifference to the Civil War during its  critical early months. In this penetrating, original, and  beautifully written book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those  forgotten years--locating Whitman directly through  unpublished letters and never-before-seen manuscripts, as  well as mapping his associations through rare period  newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways's  account fills a major gap in Whitman's biography and  debunks the myth that Whitman was unaffected by the  country's march to war. Instead,Walt Whitman and the Civil  Warreveals the poet's active participation in the early  Civil War period and elucidates his shock at the horrors of  war months before his legendary journey to Fredericksburg,  correcting in part the poet's famous assertion that the  "real war will never get in the books.},
      recid = {347600},
      pages = {vii, 210 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      address = {Berkeley :},
      year = {2009},
}