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Introduction -- Literature As Religion: Whitman's Messianic Enterprise -- The Building Of A Reputation -- Theosophy, The Occult, And Whitman's Apparitions -- The Character Of Whitman's Religion -- The Creed -- The Mystic Hypothesis -- The Strong Hypothesis -- The Weak Hypothesis -- The Denial Of The Hypothesis -- A Gospel Of Beauty -- The Classical Roots Of Aestheticism -- Whitman And The Platonic Tradition -- From Phrenology To Aesthetic Morality -- Whitman's Treatment Of The Ugly: The Kosmic Vision -- Whitman And Nietzsche -- Whitman And Oscar Wilde -- The Love Of Comrades -- A Messianic Mission -- The Nature Of Comradeship -- Eduard Bertz: Comradeship As Veiled Homosexuality -- Mystical Interpretations Of Comradeship -- Ethical Aspects Of Comradeship -- Religious Aspects Of Comradeship -- Social And Political Aspects Of Comradeship -- Whitman's Comradeship And Symonds's Concept Of Greek Love -- Whitman, The Moral Reformer -- Poetry And Ethics: Whitman's Moral Concern -- The Character Of Whitman's New Morality -- An Analysis Of Whitman's Morality: Briggs's Theory -- Whitman's Attitude To War -- Robert K. Martin's Theory: Fucked By The Earth -- David Keubrich's Theory: Post-christian Millennialism -- Reynolds's Theory: Immoral Didacticism -- A Probable Synthesis: Nature, Science, And Evolutionary Theory -- An Afterthought: Traubel, Homosexuality, And The Whitman Myth -- A Queer (theory) Postscript -- A Queer (theory) Twist: No New Species -- Whitman's Disappointment And The New Sexual Economy -- Queer (theory) Confusion And Its Uses. Lutz Mez, Ulf Wolter (hrsg.). Includes Bibliographical References.