Articles
David S. Reynolds, “Walt Whitman and Me,” in Critical Insights:Walt Whitman. Edited by Robert C. Evans. Ipswich, MA: Grey House Publishing, 2019. Pp. xv-xxvi.
“My Book and the War Are One: Whitman’s Washington Years,” in Walt Whitman, New Edition, ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2014.
“Walt Whitman’s Journalism: The Foreground of Leaves of Grass,” in Literature and Journalism: Inspiration, Intersections, and Inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert, ed. Mark Canada. London: Palgrave, 2013, 47-67. In Choice, Charles Riley writes of David S. Reynolds’s article: “[This volume is] rewarding primarily because of major contributor David Reynolds’s essay on Walt Whitman… Reynolds’s essay is a model: pitch perfect and historically sound; it has such graceful interpretive gems that it could have been a book on its own. Moving from Whitman’s boyhood work setting type to the design of Leaves of Grass, Reynolds offers fantastic insights into Whitman as gallery-goer and opera lover; only a polymath as accomplished as Reynolds could read the poetry this well in light of the sensationalist newspaper coverage.”
“Radical Sensationalism: George Lippard in His Transatlantic Contexts.” In Transatlantic Sensations. Ed. Jennifer Phegley, et al.
“Did a Novel Start the Civil War?” New York Times Upfront. January 2, 2012, pp. 24-27.
“Walt Whitman and Journalism: The Foreground of Leaves of Grass.” New Essays on Literature and Journalism in the United States. Ed. Mark Canada. (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
“The Power of Tom.” Teaching Theatre 23 (Fall 2011): 4-11.
“Mightier than the Sword,” North and South 13 (September 2011): 22-29.
“’Evil Propels Me, and Reform of Evil Propels Me:’ Literary and Social Versions of Evil in the American Renaissance.” Representations of Evil in Fiction and Film. Ed. Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergmann. Trier: WVT, 2009.
“Oliver Cromwell as American Cultural Icon: Transcendentalism, John Brown, and the Civil War.” American Cultural Icons: Configurations, Re-Figurations. Ed. Bernd Engler and Günter Leypoldt. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007.
“John Brown.”Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Stamford, CT: Thomason Gale, 2007.
“Sensational Fiction.” American History through Literature,1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006. 1054-1059.
“John Brown, the Election of Lincoln, and the Civil War.” North & South 9 (January 2006): 78-88.
“Lincoln and Whitman,” History Now December 2005.
“Louisa May Alcott,” and “Tennessee Williams.” Microsoft Encarta 2000 (CD-ROM encyclopedia). Seattle: Microsoft Corporation, 2000.
“Writing Cultural Biography in an Age of Theory: How I WroteWalt Whitman’s America.” Biography and Source Studies. Ed. Frederick R. Karl. Vol. 3. New York: AMS Press, 1997: 75-98.
“Benjamin Franklin and Walt Whitman.” Modern Language Studies 28 (Spring 1998): 29-39.
“Cultural Biography: Reflection, Transcendence, and Impact.” Biography and Source Studies. Ed. Frederick R. Karl. New York: AMS, 2003. 7: 83-99.
“Catharine Maria Sedgwick.” American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 219-20.
“George Lippard.” American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 77-8.
“’Its Wood Could Only Be American!’: Moby-Dick and Antebellum Popular Culture.”Critical Essays on Melville’s Moby-Dick. Ed. Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins. New York: Macmillan, 1992. pp. 523-44.
“Foreword” and “Bibliographic Essay.”Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts. Ed. Geoffrey M. Sill and Roberta K. Tarbell. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. ii-xv and 225-28.
“Herman Melville.” Benét’s Readers’ Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Barbara Perkins and George B. Perkins. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 696-701.
“Walt Whitman Today.” ESQ: Journal of the American Renaissance 36 (3rd quarter, 1990): 255-65.
“What Do We Do With F.O. Matthiessen?” Review 11 (1989): 319- 23.
“Literary Lights from the Void.” The World & I 4 (May 1989): 479-89.
“Whitman the Radical Democrat.” Mickle Street Review 10 (1988): 39-48.
“Whitman’s America: A Revaluation of the Cultural Backgrounds of Leaves of Grass.” Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires 3 (1987), 98 105. Reprinted in Mickle Street Review 10 (Spring 1988): 5-17.
“Revising the American Canon: The Question of Literariness.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 8 (June 1986): 230-35.