George B. Hutchinson

Professor
George B. Hutchinson
Born
George Bain Hutchinson

November 1953 (age 72)
Years active1980[1]–present
Title
  • Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture
  • George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Awards
Academic background
Education
ThesisAmerican Shaman: Visionary Ecstasy and Poetic Function in Whitman’s Verse[12] (1983)
James Huff Justus[13]
Academic work
Era
DisciplineAmericanist
School or tradition
Institutions
Main interests
Notable works
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White (1995)

George Bain Hutchinson is an American scholar who is currently the Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture and George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Cornell University.[15] He is also Director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.[15]

Early life

Raised in Indianapolis, Hutchinson has cited his mother's interest in cultural traditions and his geologist grandfather's[h] work as potential early influences on his historical perspectives.[17][i][j] He has stated that reading the poetry of Walt Whitman alongside Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson in high school inspired his passion for literature.[18][k] He has said that Whitman's work in particular invigorated him during his college years.[18][l]

He graduated from Brown University with an A.B. in American Civilization in 1975. He has said that he was equally interested in American history and literature during his undergraduate studies, but he ultimately identified more with American literature and found the issues it explored to be of greater interest to him.[18][m] At Brown, he was a member of the varsity crew, serving as captain in 1975 and participating in the 1973 Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships.[17]

Hutchinson served in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso from 1975 to 1977, organizing manual well-digging projects. He later wrote that the experience changed his expectations about development work.[19][n] While in Burkina Faso, he read Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism.[19] These essays altered Hutchinson's perspective on property rights and their relation to individual rights more generally, not to mention capitalist democracy itself.[o] During his service, Hutchinson's appearance—including long hair described by locals as 'ghostly'[p]—contributed to a sense of being a cultural outsider, an experience he later noted as potentially influential to his scholarly work.[19][q]

Career

Hutchinson graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a Ph.D. in English and American Studies in 1983 and taught at the University of Tennessee from 1982 to 2000.[17] He chaired the American Studies Program from 1987 to 2000 and held the Kenneth Curry Chair in English from 1999 to 2000.[17] During this time, he served as President of the Knoxville Rowing Association and assisted in the establishment of the university's first women's varsity crew.[20][21]

In 1986, The Ohio State Press published Hutchinson's first monograph, The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism & the Crisis of the Union, which applied anthropological theories of shamanism to Walt Whitman's Civil War-era poetry.[22][23] Hutchinson has maintained a scholarly engagement with the poetry of Whitman over several decades.[1][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] He has authored entries in Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia and reviewed numerous monographs on the poet for academic journals.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]

In the late 1980s, while teaching surveys of African American literature alongside 19th-century American literature, Hutchinson began researching the Harlem Renaissance to explore how these two seemingly separate fields interconnected.[r] He noted that, at the time, there had been little investigation into the relationship between Whitman and African American authors, as Black and white modernisms were often treated as polar opposites.[s] His research into how Black poets of the 1920s engaged with Whitman's democratic ideals revealed an extensive web of interracial intellectual exchange that helped shape the "New Negro" identity.[t] This work helped shift the academic conversation toward seeing these movements as mutually constitutive, making it no longer heterodox to discuss them together.[u][40] Published by Harvard University Press in 1995, Hutchinson's second monograph, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, formalized this argument, asserting that the Harlem Renaissance was actually a composite, interracial cultural event that was at the center of modernism rather than a self-contained Black movement.[41]

In 1993-4 and 1998, Hutchinson was Visiting Professor of North American Studies at the University of Bonn. He was the Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies at Indiana University Bloomington from 2000 to 2012.[42][43][44]

Hutchinson has noted that between 1996 and 2006, his understanding of the Harlem Renaissance shifted as the academic significance of sexualities grew stronger in the '80s and '90s.[v] This lens, alongside interests in Marxism, transnationalism, and Black feminist criticism, allowed him to re-evaluate the movement and its figures by moving toward a more complex analysis of how identity and social themes may be negotiated in literature.[w] Black feminist scholars showed that female writers who had previously been dismissed or overlooked–most notably Nella Larsen–deserved another look.[40][x] In 2006, Harvard University Press published Hutchinson's third monograph, In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line, which presented a positive reinterpretation of Larsen's life and work and positioned her as a conscious modernist.[45][46]

In 2013, Hutchinson joined Cornell University as the Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture, where he is also George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.[47] At Cornell, his teaching and research focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, with particular attention to race in American culture, African American literature, and American modernism.[47] From 2016 to 2021, he held a faculty fellowship from Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. He co-organized the Environmental Humanities Lecture Series (2017–2018) and hosted events on literature and environmental justice.[48][49][50]

Hutchinson's fourth monograph, Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s, was a revisionist study that challenged the idea of the 1940s as a neglected or merely patriotic decade. It was published by Columbia University Press in 2018.[51][52]

In 2019, Hutchinson edited the Penguin Classics edition of Jean Toomer's composite novel, Cane (novel). His scholarly engagement with Toomer spans over several decades.[53][54][55] He is also the author of the forthcoming biography Jean Toomer: Writer for a New America, scheduled for publication by Yale University Press on August 18, 2026, as part of the press's Black Lives series of biographies of influential figures of African descent.[56]

Awards and accolades

Hutchinson was 1988 and 1989 NEH Fellow.[4] He was also a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.[11][57]

Hutchinson was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History in 2006 for The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, which was also a finalist for the Anne Rea Jewell Non-Fiction Prize of The Boston Book Review in 1996. At a 2021 lecture given by Hutchinson at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Harvard University) referred to the monograph as "the bible on the Harlem Renaissance."[58]

In Search of Nella Larsen won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa[9] and Bronze Medal Independent Publisher Book Award for Biography in 2007[59] and was listed by The Washington Post and Booklist as one of the best Nonfiction books of 2006. It was also selected as an Editors' Choice by NYTBR and as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice magazine.[60]

Hutchinson was voted winner for his defense of English in a lifeboat debate organized by The Cornell University Philosophy Club & Undergraduate Journal (LOGOS) in 2013.[18]

Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s was shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award in 2019 and won Honorable Mention for the Matei Călinescu Prize of the MLA, awarded for what the association describes as distinguished scholarship on 20th and 21st century literature and thought.[61][62]

Hutchinson's 2019 edition of Jean Toomer's Cane was an Editors' Choice of NYTBR.[63]

Reception and critique

Some scholars have questioned Hutchinson's tendency to prioritize compelling narratives or ideas over the complexity of his evidence. It has been suggested that his focus on interracial collaboration may inherently downplay the impacts of systemic racism. Some have cited concerns regarding his handling and dismissal of the work of those who came before him.

Upon reading The Ecstatic Whitman, Professor Mark Cumming (Memorial University) noticed that Hutchinson pushes his shamanistic model too far and relies on a selective reading of Whitman's work to make his points.[y] While Cumming conceded that Hutchinson's model explains moments of ecstasy in individual poems, he believed it inadequately explains the overall artistic structure of Leaves of Grass.[z] Cumming contended that Hutchinson's attempt to unlock all of Whitman's work with a single cultural key like shamanism is chimerical and reductive because Whitman's writing is too complex to be contained by one theory.[aa] According to Cumming, Hutchinson also comes across unduly resistant to Whitman's later edits by viewing them as a decline or regression.[ab][64]

Professor William J. Maxwell (Washington University in St. Louis), Professor Chip Rhodes (Colorado State University), and Professor Charles Scruggs (University of Arizona) noted that The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White overemphasizes integration and interracial harmony. According to Maxwell and Rhodes, Hutchinson downplays racism, the power imbalances of the time, and the independent parts of Black culture, and he softens the structural racial dynamics of the 1920s.[65][ac][66][ad][67] Professor Joseph McLaren (Hofstra University) disliked Hutchinson's tone toward foundational Black scholars.[68][ae] For McLaren, Hutchinson's challenging of these scholars' reliance on racial binaries constituted an attack on Black intellectuals.[68][af] Scruggs noted a concern that Hutchinson's framing might whiten the history of the Harlem Renaissance.[67][ag]

Professor Daryl Cumber Dance (University of Richmond) believed that Hutchinson's In Search of Nella Larsen suffers from the same lack of primary evidence as earlier biographies do, as Hutchinson does not provide definitive details on the fate of Larsen's biological father,[ah] the true nature of her marriage to Dr. Elmer Imes,[ai] or the motivations behind her withdrawal from the literary world.[aj] Dance found that, in In Search of Nella Larsen, Hutchinson is critical and accusatory of prior biographers,[ak] and he not only strikes a boastful tone concerning his own breakthroughs,[al] but also neglects to name the predecessors whose work he integrates into his text.[am] Dance argued that, despite Hutchinson's research, large sections of Larsen's life remain obscure.[an] According to Dance, Hutchinson draws heavily from Larsen's novels to infer details about her life,[ao] and his theories regarding Larsen's childhood and her relationship with her mother are speculative.[ap] Dance noted that Hutchinson retells stories already well-documented by previous biographers,[aq] includes excessive detail in the section on the Harlem Renaissance,[ar] and provides neither a chronology of Larsen's life nor a bibliography of primary and secondary materials.[as][69]

According to Publishers Weekly, Facing the Abyss seems vague and fragmented rather than a cohesive picture of a decade, and Hutchinson's attempt to link the literature of marginalized groups into a unified narrative is unsuccessful.[70][at] Professor Morris Dickstein (CUNY Graduate Center) suggested that the historical reality of the 1940s may be too culturally disparate to fit into a single, seamless narrative, and Hutchinson's attempts to characterize the decade as a whole or find a "broken rhythm" in the era's culture inherently risk over-systematizing a period that was defined as much by its anxieties as by its victory.[71][au] Amy Fehr, Ph.D., pointed out that Hutchinson's celebration of 1940s universalism–or "planetary humanism"–feels out of touch with the current political climate, especially with how those same concepts are weaponized in modern racial politics (e.g., All Lives Matter). According to Fehr, Hutchinson seems to believe that 1940s ideals can be recovered or used as a blueprint for correcting contemporary concerns, yet he provides few details on how this might be done.[72][av][aw]

Works

Authored

  • The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union (PDF). Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-814-20412-2.
  • The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-674-37262-7.
  • In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-674-02180-8.
  • Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s. New York City: Columbia University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-231-54596-9.
  • The Art of Spencer Hutchinson. Ersatz Modem Press. 2024. ISBN 978-1-681-11590-0.[ax]
  • Jean Toomer: Writer for a New America. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press. 2026. ISBN 978-0-300-26773-0.

Edited

Journal articles and essays

Walt Whitman

Jean Toomer

Nella Larsen

Miscellaneous (Harlem Renaissance and other literature)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation summer stipend is a paid fellowship, internship, or research grant designed to support undergraduate students, graduate students, or scholars in the humanities and arts. These stipends fund summer research, internships, or archival work, often focusing on diversity, Native American studies, or specialized research training.[2]
  2. ↑ The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship is a prestigious individual award for scholars pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or the public's understanding of the humanities. While "University Teachers" was a specific program category in the past, these are now largely consolidated under the general NEH Fellowships program. Winning an NEH Fellowship twice is possible but rare, primarily due to the program's extreme competitiveness and specific eligibility restrictions[3]
  3. ↑ The Darwin T. Turner Award is an annual prize given to the author of the best essay published in the journal African American Review. It is frequently presented during the MLA Annual Convention, but is specifically granted by the African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS).[5]
  4. ↑ The Chancellor's Citation at the University of Tennessee is awarded during the annual Chancellor's Honors Banquet and is one of the university's highest honors. It recognizes students, faculty, and staff for extraordinary achievements, including outstanding leadership, service, research, and creative work that exemplify the "Volunteer Spirit" and improve campus life.[6]
  5. ↑ A Bronze Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Biography is a prestigious honor given to the third-best independently published biography of the year, recognizing excellence in storytelling, research, and independent publishing. Known as "IPPYs," these awards highlight outstanding books from independent authors and small presses.[7]
  6. ↑ The Christian Gauss Award, established by the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1954, is a prestigious annual award honoring outstanding books in literary scholarship or criticism, including biographies with critical focus. It is one of three distinguished Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards aimed at promoting scholarly works that are accessible to a broad readership.[8]
  7. ↑ A Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious grant awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or creative ability in the arts. These fellowships provide recipients with a stipend and dedicated time—usually six to twelve months—to pursue projects freely in fields like the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and creative arts.[10]
  8. ↑ Hutchinson's grandfather was George W. Bain (1901–1991), Samuel A. Hitchcock Professor of Mineralogy and Geology, Emeritus, at Amherst College, where he taught from 1926 to 1966. A specialist in geology, he also served as a consultant for the Vermont Marble Company and various mining corporations, alongside working with U.S. and Canadian geological surveys.[16]
  9. ↑ "I've been most influenced as a scholar by my maternal grandfather's reputation for scholarly boldness and integrity (he was a geologist) and by my mother's emphasis on being ‘modern’ and open to the new but retaining a sense of quality and what will last....I tend to write counter to intellectual fads while trying to expand our understanding of the possible in the past and present." -Hutchinson
  10. ↑ "[M]y grandfather...has been a constant standard in my life for honesty and curiosity, for interdisciplinary probing and synthesis regarding the broadest of human concerns." -Hutchinson[13]
  11. ↑ "[I]n my high school English class I had a teacher that I really got a lot out of[,]...and reading people like Thoreau and Emerson and Whitman and Ralph Ellison and figures like that in high school that got me into English[.]" -Hutchinson, lecturing undergraduate students
  12. ↑ "And then in college it was Whitman that was the thing that really lit me on fire." -Hutchinson, lecturing undergraduate students
  13. ↑ "In college I was an AmCiv major[;] I was equally interested in history but...I just identified with the American stuff[,] and the issues in it were of more interest to me." -Hutchinson, lecturing undergraduates
  14. ↑ "I arrived with an unhealthy dose of the early-'70s-style primitivism that was rampant in elite universities at the time, and within three months, realized how ignorant it made me. I abandoned the abstractions of my college education and attended to the work at hand and the people with whom I lived." -Hutchinson
  15. ↑ "He [Nyerere] based his conception of African socialism not on Marxism and class conflict, which descends from Adam Smith and capitalist relations, but on African village life and the moral claims of kin. Land belongs to the commons (as in my village at the time). Everyone has a right to use it, but none can own it....I have never quite accommodated myself to American culture since—its wastefulness, its worship of money at the expense of the commonwealth[.]" -Hutchinson
  16. ↑ "Bangba...told me that it was my long stringy hair...that frightened people. I looked like the Mossi image of a ghost." -Hutchinson
  17. ↑ "I became an American studies scholar....That might have happened anyway, but I now have a point of reference that is impossible to forget." -Hutchinson
  18. ↑ "I first began writing about the Harlem Renaissance in relation to Walt Whitman in the late 1980s, because I was teaching sophomore surveys of African American literature semester after semester, on the one hand, and classes in nineteenth-century American literature on the other... I wanted to see how these different interests interconnected."
  19. ↑ "There had been very little investigation of African American responses to Whitman (and vice versa)... 'Black' and 'white' modernisms were generally considered in polar opposition, and as belonging to separate fields of study, not to mention separate traditions."
  20. ↑ "It was while looking behind the black responses to Whitman in the early twentieth century that a whole cultural formation emerged for me, as if out of the deep, and it kept spreading and spreading across disciplines and communities."
  21. ↑ "[W]ithin a fairly short period of time [following the late 1980s] it no longer seemed insubordinate to talk about 'black' and 'white' modernisms as interconnected, at the very least, in all sorts of complicated ways."
  22. ↑ "My ideas of the movement changed somewhat between 1996 and 2006, as the significance of Marxism, on the one hand, and sexualities grew much stronger..."
  23. ↑ "[T]he international aspects gained more importance for me (as for everyone else) as 'transnationalism' became a buzzword... The discussion also had moved away...from focusing on the movement’s 'failure,' and a lot of criticism came out showing why writers who had been dismissed earlier...deserved another look."
  24. ↑ "Black feminist criticism in the ’80s and ’90s had a huge impact (Hazel V. Carby, Cheryl A. Wall, Deborah E. McDowell, and Ann Du Cille especially come to mind)... a lot of criticism came out showing why writers who had been dismissed earlier (most notably, for me, Nella Larsen) deserved another look."
  25. ↑ "Hutchinson's claims for his shamanistic model are sometimes overstated, for it relies, as much as the mystical, psychological, sexual, and generic models do, on a selective reading of Leaves of Grass" (300).
  26. ↑ "While his shamanistic paradigm helps to explain the ecstatic moments of individual poems, it does not adequately account for the aesthetic principles which govern the entire Leaves of Grass as a cluster of clusters" (300).
  27. ↑ "The search for some single pre-existent cultural key to unlock the mysteries of Whitman's text is itself chimerical, since his elusive discourse resists the containment that any single critical viewpoint on it demands" (300).
  28. ↑ "In championing his ecstatic Whitman, Hutchinson is unduly resistant to Whitman's revisions, and too ready to see the later editions as regressive" (300).
  29. ↑ "[Hutchinson's work] consistently refuses the unglamorous but still urgent job of examining the entanglements of race, class, and capitalism. As a result, it threatens to devolve into a literary-critical outpost...that 'miniaturizes, personalizes, and moralizes the large and complex dilemmas of race, removing them from the public sphere'" (Maxwell 206).
  30. ↑ "Terrible Honesty and Harlem Renaissance in Black and White...make a similar argument[;]...these studies...pay scant attention to the connections between the cultural histories they chart and the economic and political histories with which they coincided....[M]any currently maligned figures are rehabilitated by Hutchinson based entirely upon the fact that they were not seen as racists at the time....Despite local disputes...the horizon of possibility for discussion of 'race' was always assimilationism and 'Americanism.'...Hutchinson finds instances of racial essentialism to be peripheral to the real centers of institutional and cultural power" (Rhodes 434-437).
  31. ↑ "Hutchinson seems over concerned with countering the ideas of these critics to the extent that he almost upbraids them in a tone that borders on personal attack though presented in scholarly fashion" (McLaren 197).
  32. ↑ "Hutchinson's work...challenges earlier texts and polemically indicts certain African American scholars[.]...Hutchinson objects to the binary opposition of black and white, maintaining that the separation between modernism and the Harlem Renaissance...results in the dualistic fallacy that reifies certain structures of racial dominance....To a great extent Hutchinson attributes the faults of racial interpretations primarily to black intellectuals" (McLaren 195).
  33. ↑ "Hutchinson’s historical generalizations...overlook the complexity of the period....The Renaissance seems more complicated and more diverse still than Hutchinson presents it" (Scruggs 460-462).
  34. ↑ "[Hutchinson] is never able to provide definitive details about Peter Walker, [Larsen's] mixed-race natural father, and his fate" (388).
  35. ↑ "[T]he mysteries still remain–what is really going on in [Larsen's] marriage?" (390).
  36. ↑ "Hutchinson can only speculate about what motivated [Larsen's] withdrawal" (391).
  37. ↑ "Hutchinson makes much of the errors of prior Larsen biographers Charles R. Larson (Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen [1993]) and Thadious M. Davis (Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled [1994]) charging that they overlooked important information that he will provide and that they 'pathologized' Larsen" (388).
  38. ↑ "[Hutchinson] seems to actually gloat over his own discoveries" (388).
  39. ↑ "[H]e sometimes makes use of previous scholars' work without even mentioning their names in the text" (388).
  40. ↑ "[P]eriods of Larsen's life continue to be invisible even after reading this lengthy 611-page biography....The details of...her life, remain unknown....[W]e, like Hutchinson, remain in search of Nella Larsen" (391).
  41. ↑ "Much of his discussion of her life...is full of speculation....[F]or several large sections of Larsen's life, Hutchinson...is left to speculate about his subject's life through her fiction, a device that he himself recognizes is 'an inherently hazardous enterprise' (68)" (391).
  42. ↑ "His attempts to portray Larsen's mother...in a more favorable light are not...convincing" (389).
  43. ↑ "[T]he details and most of the sources that Hutchinson presents...are precisely those used by previous biographers, and in numerous instances one feels he/she is reading a twice-told tale" (390).
  44. ↑ "Hutchinson's incessant use of [archival collections and personal papers of prominent figures from the Harlem Renaissance] becomes tedious, as he seems to provide in detail every party, luncheon, tea, book event, lecture, and nightclub excursion that Larsen attended with Van Vechten, with a complete listing of every other person who was a part of the event. He details (it appears), every meal they ever shared, every letter they exchanged" (390).
  45. ↑ "[Hutchinson's] biography would have been even more helpful to scholars had Hutchinson included a chronology of Larsen's life and works for quick reference and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials" (391).
  46. ↑ "[His] definition of culture...is fuzzy...and Hutchinson’s forays into other art forms, such as music and painting, are incomplete....[The section about literature by and about marginalized groups] fragments the study even as Hutchinson tries to create a cohesive, linked picture."
  47. ↑ "Parsing American life by decades has been irresistible to cultural historians, partly as a conventional slice of time, if not a handy cliché... The 'Roaring Twenties'... may be a gross simplification – some had much more than others to roar about....Few would venture any such generalization about the 1940s, a decade split between the war years under the canny and immensely popular FDR and the post-war period presided over by blunt, plain-spoken, but beleaguered Harry Truman"
  48. ↑ "In a time when the rhetoric of 'All Lives Matter' has been deployed to delegitimize radical movements by black and brown organizers, the abyss between the universalist ideals of the 1940s and today feels especially apparent" (Fehr 550).
  49. ↑ "While these moments seem to allude to Hutchinson's belief that the project of the universal ideal might be recovered, revised, or used as a blueprint for correcting contemporary concerns, he provides no explicit details on how this might be done" (Fehr 550).
  50. ↑ In this monograph, Hutchinson cataloged the interdisciplinary work of his late son, Spencer Hutchinson (1984–2024), an artist whose output included painting, sculptural installation, three-dimensional animation, new media, ambient music, and performance.

References

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  3. ↑ "Fellowships". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
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  6. ↑ Estep, Stacy (April 30, 2025). "Outstanding Students, Faculty and Staff Recognized at Honors Banquets". University of Tennessee, Knoxville News. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
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  13. 1 2 Hutchinson, George B. (1986). The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union. Ohio State University Press. p. ix. ISBN 0-8142-0412-0.
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  24. ↑ Hutchinson, George B. (1987). "Life Review and the Common World in Whitman's 'Specimen Days'". South Atlantic Review. 52 (1): 3–21. doi:10.2307/3200365. JSTOR 3200154.
  25. ↑ Hutchinson, George B. (Spring 1989). "'The Laughing Philosopher': Whitman's Comic Repose". Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 6 (4): 172–188. doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1223. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  26. ↑ Hutchinson, George B. (1989). "Whitman and the Black Poet: Kelly Miller's Speech to the Walt Whitman Fellowship". American Literature. 61 (1): 110–114. doi:10.2307/2926518. JSTOR 2926725.
  27. ↑ Hutchinson, George B. (1990). "Whitman's Confidence Game: The 'Good Gray Poet' and the Civil War". South Central Review. 7 (1): 3–21. doi:10.2307/3189211. JSTOR 3189491.
  28. ↑ Hutchinson, George B. (1992). "Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman". In Martin, Robert K. (ed.). The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life. pp. 16–27.
  29. ↑ Hutchinson, George (2003). "Race and the Family Romance: Whitman's Civil War". Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 20 (3/4): 123–146. doi:10.13008/0737-0679.2372.
  30. ↑ Hutchinson, George B. (2009). "The Whitman Legacy and the Harlem Renaissance". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). African-American Poets. Bloom's Modern Critical Views. New York: Infobase Publishing. pp. 115–136. ISBN 978-1-60413-408-7.
  31. ↑ Hutchinson, George (2014). "Afterword: At Whitman's Grave". In Wilson, Ivy G. (ed.). Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet. University of Iowa Press. pp. 179–186. ISBN 978-1-60938-236-0.
  32. ↑ Hutchinson, George (1998). "Civil War, The [1861–1865]". In LeMaster, J.R.; Kummings, Donald D. (eds.). Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. ISBN 978-0815318767. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
  33. ↑ Hutchinson, George; Drews, David (1998). "Racial Attitudes". In LeMaster, J.R.; Kummings, Donald D. (eds.). Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. ISBN 978-0815318767. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
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