Atlantic Citizens : : Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World / / Leslie Eckel.
By looking beyond the page and into the extraordinary lives of Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Grace Greenwood, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass, this book uncovers their startling contributions to transatlantic culture and makes the argument that literature is d...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: THE VOCATIONAL ROUTES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
- CHAPTER 1 LONGFELLOW AND THE VOLUME OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER 2 FULLER’S CONVERSATIONAL JOURNALISM: NEW YORK, LONDON, ROME
- CHAPTER 3 ‘A TYPE OF HIS COUNTRYMEN’: DOUGLASS AND TRANSATLANTIC PRINT CULTURE
- CHAPTER 4 BETWEEN COSMOS AND COSMOPOLIS: EMERSON’S NATIONAL CRITICISM
- CHAPTER 5 THE PROFESSIONAL PILGRIM: GREENWOOD SELLS THE TRANSATLANTIC EXPERIENCE
- CHAPTER 6 STANDING UPON AMERICA: WHITMAN AND THE PROFESSION OF NATIONAL POETRY
- AFTERWORD VOCATION OR VACATION? TRANSATLANTIC PROFESSIONALISM NOW
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX