Bibliography of Walt Whitman's Short Fiction in Periodicals

Stephanie Blalock

doi:10.13008/0737-0679.2083

Introductory Notes:The following bibliography is not a complete listing of Walt Whitman's short fiction titles. I have included only the titles of those pieces for which there are newly discovered reprints and /or for which there is the potential for new information about the original, in the case of "Lingave's Temptation" and the stories Whitman would later title "Little Jane" and "The Boy-Lover." Whitman's longer fiction works, namely his novel Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times and "ArrowTip" (later, "The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier") are also omitted from the bibliography. I have included a section at the end of this project for reprints of a short stor y, titled "The Little Minstrel Girl-A Tale of Truth," that has been previously attributed to Whitman.All entries presented here include standard bibliographical information in addition to a city of publication when possible. Some periodicals use Roman numerals to indicate the "volume" and/or the "number" of an issue; all of these have been converted to standard numbers in order to ensure consistency in numbering throughout the bibliography. If the work is available in a periodicals database or in another electronic form, the name of that database or electronic source is included in the citation. Full citations are provided for previously discovered reprints of Whitman's fiction in periodicals. Previously unknown reprints in periodicals are indicated with circular bullet points. In some cases, newspaper editors divided a single short story by W hitman to create a two-part serial that was printed in consecutive issues of the paper. If the serial divisions occurred within a previously unknown reprint, then each installment is marked with a circular bullet point. Each complete story regardless of the number of serial parts is only counted as one reprint in the list of totals at the end of each section.Entries are organized both by the title of the short fiction work and chronologically according to the date of publication. If more than one newspaper or magazine printed the same short story on a specific day, then those citations appear in alphabetical order according to the periodical title. If a work was published under more than one title, then each title has its own set of bibliographical entries. I have also included citations for reprints of Whitman's fiction in international periodicals. For each title that has been reprinted outside of the United States, there is a list of citations under the heading of "International Reprints" at the end of the section of the bibliography devoted to that work of fiction.Under some entries I have included annotations that document key features of a story, such as the reprinting of a particular version of an ending, the presence of an epigraph, or the printing of illustrated versions of Whitman's tales. I have only included these notes for the reprints that I was able to view directly online, in a periodical database, or in another form. Some databases require subscriptions to view the full text of an article; in those cases, I have provided as much information as possible, in the sections of the bibliography labeled "Additional reprints in part or in whole for which only partial citation information is available." I have also included notes such as "Preview Only" or "Citation Only" when I have identified a story as Whitman's on the basis of a preview of a small selection from the reprint or when a library's holdings include a reprint of Whitman's fiction that does not appear to be available for viewing in full online."Death in the School-Room. A Fact" (Item E 29, Myerson 1993, pg. 544) 45The annotations in the following section document the presence or absence of particular words or sentences and variations in the spelling of names from the original beginning and /or ending. They do not account for every possible variation or editorial change in punctuation or capitalization in the body or even at the end of the story. …

Bibliography of Walt Whitman's Short Fiction in Periodicals

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