Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World

A rediscovery of the bold cosmopolitan activism and professional literary adventures of six antebellum writers
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 Elizab...