Walt Whitman's Olfactory Language and the Spirit of Revolutionary America

Chapters

• Introduction
• The American Revolutionary Spirit

  Jefferson’s Ward System and Whitman’s Poetics
• Whitman’s Catalogue and the Three Overthrows
• Whitman’s Poetics with Attention to “Pride” in the Context of the American Experiment
• New Decorums

  The First Five Stanzas of “Song of Myself”
• Whitman’s Olfactory Immediacy
• “The Prairie-Grass Dividing”

  Whitman’s Odorization of His Covenant
• Conclusion