Title Atlantic citizens : nineteenth-century American writers at work in the world / Leslie Elizabeth Eckel

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages) Series Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures. Contents Introduction: the vocational routes of American literature -- Longfellow and the volume of the world -- Fuller's conversational journalism: New York, London, Rome -- 'A type of his countrymen': Douglass and transatlantic print culture -- Between cosmos and cosmopolis: Emerson's national criticism -- The professional pilgrim: Greenwood sells the transatlantic experience -- Standing upon America: Whitman and the profession of national poetry -- Afterword: vocation or vacation? Transatlantic professionalism now Summary 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 dependent upon other modes of professional creativity in order to thrive. Leslie Elizabeth Eckel shows how these six figures shaped their careers in the fields of education, journalism, public lecturing and editing in productive relation to their development as imaginative writers. To see Walt Whitman co-producing foreign editions of his work with British poets while exuberantly breaking free from verse strictures on the page, or to witness Margaret Fuller reporting from the battle ground in revolutionary Rome as well as writing her country's first feminist treatise is to comprehend more deeply the ways in which these writers acted in the transatlantic sphere. By practicing Atlantic citizenship, they were able to achieve critical distance from the United States and, paradoxically, to catalyse its ongoing growth. Key Features. Questions the American" identity of representative authors, even as they test the moral and geographical limits of American nationality Demonstrates the political and commercial power of transatlantic networking Illuminates literature's dependence upon other modes of professional creativity Examines archival documents alongside familiar literary works Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and transnationalism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. American literature Civilization Literature and transnationalism Literatur Weltbürgertum SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139939 Subject United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780748669387 0748669388 9781299456556 1299456553 9780748669394 0748669396 9780748669400 074866940X

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