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Publications of Luke Mancuso

Books:

Mancuso, Luke. The Strange Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship. Columbia, SC: Camden House Press, 1997. Amazon

Essays:

Mancuso, Luke. “The Orestes Brownson—Virgil Michel Connections.” Symposium Journal (6) Spring 1988: 29—44.

Mancuso, Luke. “The Monastery and the World: A Consideration of Hospitality.” Review for Religious 48: 2 (March—April 1989): 283—90.

Mancuso, Luke. “A Consideration of the Orestes Brownson—Virgil Michel Connections.” American Benedictine Review 40:3 (Sept 1989): 274—90.

Mancuso, Luke. “‘Chanting the Square Deific’: Walt Whitman Confronts Structural Evil in Post—War America.” Symposium Journal (8) 1990: 15—33.

Mancuso, Luke. “‘Reconstruction is still in Abeyance’: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas and the Federalizing of National Identity.” ATQ: Journal of 19t-century American Culture and Literature. 8:3 (Sept 1994): 229—250.

Mancuso, Luke. “Keep a Steady Course: Dessa Rose Resists But Maintains the Interracial Equilibrium. Symposium Journal (SJU Press) (13) 1995: 1—14.

Mancuso, Luke. “‘I should have been too glad—I see—’: Emily Dickinson’s Ironic Dismissal of the Puritan Code,” Symposium Journal (19) Spring 2002: 88-93.

Mancuso, Luke. “Cultural Context: Civil War.” The Routledge Companion to Walt Whitman. Ed. Donald Kummings. 290-310. New York & London. (Blackwell Press, 2006). Wiley

Mancuso, Luke. “Brokeback Mountain and the History of the Future of the Normal.” Ed. Joanna Juett. Coming Out to the Mainstream: Queer Cinema in the 21st Century. 91-121. Cambridge S P, 2011. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/coming-out-to-the-mainstream-16

Reference Essays:

Mancuso, Luke. “Leaves of Grass (1867 edition).” Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald Kummings and J. R. LeMaster. (Garland Press, 1998) 365-368. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_24.html

Mancuso, Luke. “Leaves of Grass (1871—1872 edition).” Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald Kummings & J. R. LeMaster. (Garland Press, 1998) 368-372. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_25.html

Mancuso, Luke. “Preface to As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872).” Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald Kummings & J. R. LeMaster. (Garland Press, 1998) 540-41.

Mancuso, Luke. “Reconstruction.” Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald Kummings and J. R. LeMaster. (Garland Press, 1998) 576-77.

Mancuso, Luke. “Sequel to Drum—Taps (1866).” Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. Eds. Donald Kummings & J. R. LeMaster. (Garland Press, 1998) 627-28.

Book Reviews:

Mancuso, Luke. Review of Comer, Keith. Strange Meetings: Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, and Poetry of War. Lund University Press, 1996, in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 15:4 (Winter 1998) 99—102.

Mancuso, Luke. Review of Loving, Jerome. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. Berkeley: U of CA P, 1999, in American Literary Realism. (September 2000) 100-104. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27747003

Mancuso, Luke. Book Review Editor, Midwest/Modern Language Association Journal, January 2005.

Mancuso, Luke. Review of Greenspan, Ezra. Song of Myself: A Casebook and Critical Reader. New York & London: Routledge, 2005. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 23: 3 (Winter 2006).

Mancuso, Luke. Book Review Editor, Midwest/Modern Language Association Journal, January 2007.

Mancuso, Luke. Manuscript Editor, Iowa Whitman Series: Martin Buinicki: Walt Whitman and Reconstruction (2011), University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, Fall 2010. http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2011-fall/walt-whitman%E2%80%99s-reconstruction.htm

Poetry:

“The Pleasures of Prayer.” Headwaters Journal (Spring 2007), 47.

New Media:

Mancuso, Luke. “Reading Plato in the New Mexico Desert: Sabbatical Horizons.” CSB/SJU English Department Web Newsletter: May 2007. 

Mancuso, Luke. “The Pleasures of Prayer.” CSB/SJU English Department Web Newsletter: May 2007. 

Mancuso, Luke. “Luke Mancuso talks with Madhu Mitra about his Sabbatical.” CSB/SJU English Department Web Newsletter: December 2008. 

Mancuso, Luke. First-Year Seminar: “Looking Hard at Movies,”—Fall 2015-Spring 2016

Selected Papers (Scholarship):
  • “God is Friendship: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Relational Nature and Works.”—1988
  • “A Consideration of the Virgil Michel-Orestes Brownson Connections,”—1988
  • “ Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Its Discontents: Something is Rotten in the State and in Nature.”—1990
  • “‘I should have been too glad, I see—’: Emily Dickinson’s Ironic Dismissal of the Puritan Code.”—1991
  • “Gladitorial: D. H. Lawrence Struggles With Walt Whitman in Women in Love—1991
  • “Search for Subjectivity in Dickens’ Great Expectations,”—1991
  • “Keep a Steady Course: Dessa Rose Resists but Maintains the Interracial Equilibrium.”—1992
  • “Lincoln, Whitman, and Emancipation,”—1995
  • “The Uses of Nostalgia: Walt Whitman’s Civil War,”—2004
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