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The most protean and elusive of all American poets, Walt Whitman is everywhere and nowhere at once. An unavoidable presence, he still arouses anger, envy, love, and debate one hundred years after his death. To honor this anniversary, Robert Martin has invited the most invigorating and innovative of Whitman's new readers and critics to respond not to Whitman's death but to his continuing life as it has marked their own lives and writings. The eighteen essays gathered in this volume testify to the powerful multiple responses that Whitman continues to evoke.

Authors and readers -- United States. --- Reader-response criticism. --- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authors and readers --- Reader-response criticism --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Whitman, Walt, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ouïtman, Ouōlt, --- Uitman, Uolʹt, --- Uitmen, Uot, --- Uitmen, Uolt, --- Viṭman̲, Vālṭ, --- Vālṭ Viṭman̲, --- Witʻŭmŏn, --- Ṿiṭman, Ṿolṭ, --- Vālṭviṭman̲, --- Waltvitmen, --- Whitman, Walter, --- Huiteman, --- Veeitman, --- Уитмен, Уолт, --- ויטמן, וולט, --- װיטמאן, װאלט, --- ويتمن، والت، --- Vitmen, Volt, --- Uitman, Uollt, --- Huiteman, Huate, --- 華特·惠特曼,

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American poetry --- Gay men in literature. --- Gay men's writings, American --- Homosexuality and literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.

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Drawing widely on contemporary theory-particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva-this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburba

Fiction --- American literature --- Psychological study of literature --- American fiction --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, American --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Psychological fiction, American --- Race relations in literature. --- Women and literature --- History and criticism. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Race relations in literature --- Literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism --- American fiction -- History and criticism. --- American fiction. --- Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States. --- Horror tales, American -- History and criticism. --- Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism. --- Women and literature -- United States. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- American psychological fiction --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism

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Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidays explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome.

Artists --- Travel writing --- Americans --- Authors, American --- American prose literature --- Travelers' writings, American --- American literature --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- Biography. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Italian influences. --- Italy --- Rome (Italy) --- In art. --- In literature. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel