NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature, and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow.

• IntroductionEarly ReviewsWhitman in the Early Twentieth CenturyWhitman and the 'American Renaissance'Whitman, Myth Criticism and the Growth of American StudiesWhitman, Cultural Materialism and 'Reconstructive' ReadingsIdeology and Desire: Whitman and SexualityIdeology and Deconstruction: Whitman and 'New Americanist' CritiquesBibliographyIndex.

NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature, and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow.

• IntroductionEarly ReviewsWhitman in the Early Twentieth CenturyWhitman and the 'American Renaissance'Whitman, Myth Criticism and the Growth of American StudiesWhitman, Cultural Materialism and 'Reconstructive' ReadingsIdeology and Desire: Whitman and SexualityIdeology and Deconstruction: Whitman and 'New Americanist' CritiquesBibliographyIndex.

NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature, and Associate Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow.

• IntroductionEarly ReviewsWhitman in the Early Twentieth CenturyWhitman and the 'American Renaissance'Whitman, Myth Criticism and the Growth of American StudiesWhitman, Cultural Materialism and 'Reconstructive' ReadingsIdeology and Desire: Whitman and SexualityIdeology and Deconstruction: Whitman and 'New Americanist' CritiquesBibliographyIndex.