Bradford, Adam C. <br/><br/>
Communities of Death :  Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (264 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Ascendant Harmonies: Whitman's "Art Singing and Heart Singing" in Poe's Broadway Journal of 1845 -- Chapter 1. Inspiring Death: Poe's Poetic Aesthetics and the "Communities" of Mourning -- Chapter 2. Horrifying (Re)Inscriptions: Poe's Transcendent Gothic and the 'Effects' of Reading -- Chapter 3. The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass -- Chapter 4. Embodying the Book: Mourning for the Masses in Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps -- Chapter 5. Aggregating Americans: The Political Immortality of Walt Whitman's Two Rivulets -- Afterword(s): Curious Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826273161 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Whitman, Walt,-1819-1892.<br/>Death in literature.<br/>Mourning customs in literature.<br/>American poetry-19th century-History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS217 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>818.309