Atlantic citizens : nineteenth-century American writers at work in the world /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eckel, Leslie Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Colección:Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and transnationalism.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et transnationalisme.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature
Civilization
Literature and transnationalism
Literatur
Weltbürgertum
United States > Civilization > 19th century.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 19e siècle.
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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