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Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Transatlantic Literature)
Leslie Eckel
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Description for Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Transatlantic Literature)
Hardcover. By looking beyond the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Grace Greenwood, Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass to their public commentaries in lectures, reviews, and newspaper columns, this study uncovers their startling contributions to transatlantic culture. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
This is a rediscovery of the bold cosmopolitan activism and professional literary adventures of six antebellum writers. By looking beyond the familiar works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Grace Greenwood, Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass to their public commentaries in lectures, reviews, and newspaper columns, this study uncovers their startling contributions to transatlantic culture. Louise Eckel argues that writing American literature was only one among their many vocational pursuits and that their work was powerfully influenced by wide-ranging political engagements and transnational friendships. The book's chapters balance close readings of primary texts, both literary (poems, essays) ... Read more
This is a rediscovery of the bold cosmopolitan activism and professional literary adventures of six antebellum writers. By looking beyond the familiar works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Grace Greenwood, Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass to their public commentaries in lectures, reviews, and newspaper columns, this study uncovers their startling contributions to transatlantic culture. Louise Eckel argues that writing American literature was only one among their many vocational pursuits and that their work was powerfully influenced by wide-ranging political engagements and transnational friendships. The book's chapters balance close readings of primary texts, both literary (poems, essays) ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748669370
SKU
V9780748669370
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About Leslie Eckel
Leslie Elizabeth Eckel is Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston.
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