Introduction
1 Marx and the 'Transformation of History into World History'
2 'Within Me Latitude Widens, Longitude Lengthens': Whitman and the World Created by Capital
3 'In Paths Untrodden': Whitman, Nature, Democracy and the 'Average Man of To-day'
4 The 'Emptiness' of the Present: Marx, the 'Bourgeois Viewpoint' and Its 'Romantic Antithesis'
5 'This All-Devouring Modern Word': Whitman's Critique of Business
6 From Brooklyn Ferry to Brooklyn Bridge: José Martí and the 'Modern Multiple Life'
7 'The Final Culmination of This Vast and Varied Republic': Whitman's Failed Transcendence of the Present
8 Whitman: Inconsistent Democrat, Yet More Than a Democrat
9 A 'Damaged and Alien Civilization': Martí's Search for an Alternative Modernity
10 C.L.R. James's Notes on American Civilization, or the Song of the C.I.O.
11 'Now Has Come the Hour of the Countersong': Pedro Mir and Walt Whitman
References
Index