The perfecting of nature : reforming bodies in antebellum literature / by Doty, Josh

Table of Contents: “…Transcendental self-culture and the horizons of bioplasticity -- Governance, race, and alimentary selfhood in Melville -- Sculpting hte body electric: exercise and self-fashioning in Walt Whitman -- Tricks of the blood: heredity and repair in Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -- Coda: literature and neurological selfhood.…”
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The perfecting of nature : reforming bodies in antebellum literature / by Doty, Josh

Table of Contents: “…Transcendental self-culture and the horizons of bioplasticity -- Governance, race, and alimentary selfhood in Melville -- Sculpting hte body electric: exercise and self-fashioning in Walt Whitman -- Tricks of the blood: heredity and repair in Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. -- Coda: literature and neurological selfhood.…”
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Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870 / by Henderson, Desirée

Table of Contents: “…Grief and genre -- The imperfect dead: funeral sermons, fallen women, and the early American novel -- American eulogy: William Apess and national mourning -- Geographies of loss: Frederick Douglass and the slave cemetery -- Lincoln's unrest: Walt Whitman and the Civil War cemetery -- Mourning books: the conduct literature of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Emily Dickinson -- The modern genres of grief.…”

Mania for Freedom : American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolutionary to the Civil War / by Kilgore, John Mac

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By broad Potomac's shore : great poems from the early days of our nation's capital /

Table of Contents: “…-February 20, 1895 -- Walt Whitman: May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892 -- Sara Clarke Lippincott (Grace Greenwood): September 23, 1823-April 20, 1904 -- George Boyer Vashon: July 25, 1824-October 5, 1878…”
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