The International Whitman: A Review Essay

The International Whitman: A Review Essay

"Collaborators in the Great Cause of Liberty and Fellowship": Whitmania as an Intercultural Phenomenon

Avoids the "familiar bicultural model" of looking at Whitman in relation to a single country by emphasizing a broader intercultural "network of relationships between Whitmanites from various countries"; explores the promotional efforts of writers, translators, and intellectuals including Johannes Schlaf, Leon Bazalgette, Eduard Bertz, Horace Traubel, and R. M. Bucke

Walt Whitman. <i>Lebenseiche, moosbehangen. Live Oak, with Moss,</i> translated and edited by Heinrich Detering.

Review of Walt Whitman, Lebenseiche, moosbehangen. Live Oak, with Moss, translated and edited by Heinrich Detering

Music in the Rhythm of War: Othmar Schoeck and the Beginning of Whitman-Music in the German-Speaking Countries

Explores how Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) "made a radical political statement" by interpreting "Beat! Beat! Drums!" in his 1915 work Trommelschlage (Drum-Taps)

"Collaborators in the Great Cause of Liberty and Fellowship": Whitmania as an Intercultural Phenomenon

Avoids the "familiar bicultural model" of looking at Whitman in relation to a single country by emphasizing a broader intercultural "network of relationships between Whitmanites from various countries"; explores the promotional efforts of writers, translators, and intellectuals including Johannes Schlaf, Leon Bazalgette, Eduard Bertz, Horace Traubel, and R. M. Bucke

Counting atoms in a deep optical microtrap

We demonstrate a method to count small numbers of atoms held in a deep, microscopic optical dipole trap by collecting fluorescence from atoms exposed to a standing wave of light that is blue detuned from resonance. While scattering photons, the atoms are also cooled by a Sisyphus mechanism that results from the spatial variation in light intensity. The use of a small blue detuning limits the losses due to light assisted collisions, thereby making the method suitable for counting several atoms in a microscopic volume

Charles Sealsfield

The death of an aging, terminally ill American in the small city of Solothurn, Switzerland, on 26 May 1864, did not receive much public attention at first. Charles Sealsfield had lived on his small estate for some six years and was generally regarded as an eccentric, a writer who had known fame in his earlier days but who had long since resigned himself to a peaceful existence in Switzerland, one of the few non-autocratic countries in Europe at that time. To everyone’s surprise, however, the execution of his last will revealed that the old writer was not born in Pennsylvania, as his U.S. passport indicated, but in Poppitz, a small village in Southern Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Czechoslovakia). It appeared that his true name was Karl Postl, that he was born in Poppitz in the year 1793, and that his father, Anton Postl, was a farmer in the same village, employed by a monastic order with headquarters in Prague