An Unpublished Whitman Postcard to Karl Knortz

Presents a previously unpublished postcard dated April 20th, 1883, and provides a brief description of its addressee

Concord Companions: Margaret Fuller, Friendship, and Desire

In this paper, we examine the rhetoric of friendship and desire in mid-nineteenth-century American writing. We begin by looking at Emerson's essay on friendship and Thoreau's poem "Sympathy" (1840) to provide a context for reading Margaret Fuller's fascinating texts on samesex bonds between women. Of particular interest to us is Fuller's translation of Elizabeth von Arnim's Die Gunderode (1840), a collection of letters between Arnim and the German Romantic poet Karoline von Gunderode which provides compelling insights into the early to mid-nineteenth-century continuum between female friendship and same-sex desire. We situate this translation alongside Fuller's own female friendships and expressions of love for women, more specifically her declarations of love to Anna Barker and, later, to George Sand. This latter relationship, we suggest, was a source of admiration and anxiety, for Sand's cross-dressing and fluid sense of gender identity was simultaneously celebrated and condemned in Fuller's Women in the Nineteenth Century (1843)

The Correspondence of Walt Whitman: A Second Supplement with an Revised Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman

Collects the Whitman letters that have appeared after the first supplement to The Correspondence (1977); with an Introduction (1-3) and a revised and expanded "Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman" (43-96)