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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.