The following page, like all links pages, will be in a perpetual state of construction and obsolescence. We are not attempting to gather all the individual links relating to Whitman and Dickinson, but rather attempting to gather a fair list of large and/or well done sites that offer interesting original content or links to a variety of resources. If you administer a related site, and would like to have a link here, mail us, and we'll fit you in directly.
The links below deal somehow with bodies--sexual, geographical, or political, in Whitman and Dickinson.
The Classroom Electric--The contents page for the FIPSE Teaching the Whitman and Dickinson Archives pages, this one included. Includes some of the sites that are given more detailed coverage under their own entries.
Ezra Greenspan's Worlds Visible and Invisible invites readers to put Whitman into context by focussing on two worlds of which he was an inhabitant: the physical city of New York (as represented by period photography) and the burgeoning trade of printing.
Kristen Silva Gruesz' The Geographical Imagination in Whitman and Dickinson explores Whitman and Dickinson's use of geography and landscape, touching on issues of exoticism, expansionism, and the idea of Manifest Destiny, among other.
Stephanie Browner's Love and Conquest: The Erotics of Colonial Discourse in Emily Dickinson's Poems and Letters also explores the use of Dickinson's geography of the exotic, challenging claims of the exclusive interiority of Dickinson's poems, and putting her use of place in context of the discourses of colonialism and expansionism.
Bernie Hiedlkamp's Genders and Identities in Walt Whitman, a student project, provides a light-hearted look at Whitman's work through the lens of sexuality, gender, and identity.
Jason Paul Mitchell takes on the question of how others saw Whitman's sexuality in Constructing Walt Whitman: The Critics Contend over the Good G(r)ay Poet. His paper focuses mainly on the attempts of early critics and biographers to revise the image of Whitman's sexuality.
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive--An ambitious project, currently under construction, already includes such valuable resources as Whitman's works, manuscript facsimiles, a list of reviews, a good Whitman bibliography, and a complete photo-gallery.
Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass--A bibliographical exhibit from the rare books collection at the University of South Carolina, this provides a good basic chronology of Whitman's publication practices, with pictures of some editions.
The Poetry of Walt Whitman--A non-scholarly page containing some poetry, some biography, and a web-forum.
Leaves of Grass--Project Bartleby's online text (1900) with a short biographical note.
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)--Yahoo's index page for Whitman: a good source for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly material, though slow to update links.
Walt Whitman Notebooks--Presents the contents of four recently recovered Whitman notebooks, from the Library of Congress.
A Backward Glance over Travelled Roads--The full text of Whitman's essay. Unfortunately, a bit difficult to read.
The Poetry Archives Emily Dickinson Page--Many poems, some links (not all maintained), and an absolutely minimal capsule bio of Dickinson at this site
One Hundred Dickinson poems--At the Women's Studies Database Reading Room. (Note: These are Dickinson's poems as edited for original publication-especially interesting in comparison with her original forms.
The Emily Dickinson Page--A large collection of links, a F.A.Q, and some information--a well-maintained site, and perhaps the best starting point for casual study. Particularly valuable are the collected links to 460 Dickinson poems online
The Dickinson Electronic Archives--The Dickinson Editing Collective's collection of Dickinson-related text, including links to original critical work, articles about Dickinson from contemporary authors, and some manuscript facsimiles. Access restricted to some sections and works in progress.
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)--Yahoo's category on Dickinson. Some good starting points, though slow to update and slow to fix dead links.
The Humanities Text Initiative's American Verse Project--a great place to search the texts of various (mostly out-of-print) works of American poetry. Find authors you never knew existed, or just every occurrence of the word "cheese." (there are 16).
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