Table of Contents:
  • Imaging Whitman: the nineteenth century. The "gathering of the forces" in Brooklyn
  • Masks, identity, and representation
  • Visual self-fashioning and artistic (re)assessment
  • Reception and representation in the 1880s
  • Thomas Eakins and the "solitary singer"
  • Whitman and the modernists: the twentieth century. Marsden Hartley's masculine landscapes
  • Robert Coady and The soil
  • Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge.