Walt Whitman, the Bachelor, and Sexual Politics

Explores Whitman\u27s negotiation of bachelorhood, examining how and why the poet avoided the word bachelor and its idea in print, yet embraced it in his persona; argues that Whitman\u27s relation to bachelorhood demonstrates the complexity we face in restructuring concepts like \u27bachelorhood\u27 from our own times, when the word has lost most of its resonance