CHAPTER 6 STANDING UPON AMERICA: WHITMAN AND THE PROFESSION OF NATIONAL POETRY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi
4. INTRODUCTION: THE VOCATIONAL ROUTES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1
5. CHAPTER 1 LONGFELLOW AND THE VOLUME OF THE WORLD 19
6. CHAPTER 2 FULLER’S CONVERSATIONAL JOURNALISM: NEW YORK, LONDON, ROME 46
7. CHAPTER 3 ‘A TYPE OF HIS COUNTRYMEN’: DOUGLASS AND TRANSATLANTIC PRINT CULTURE 71
8. CHAPTER 4 BETWEEN COSMOS AND COSMOPOLIS: EMERSON’S NATIONAL CRITICISM 99
9. CHAPTER 5 THE PROFESSIONAL PILGRIM: GREENWOOD SELLS THE TRANSATLANTIC EXPERIENCE 127
10. CHAPTER 6 STANDING UPON AMERICA: WHITMAN AND THE PROFESSION OF NATIONAL POETRY 153
11. AFTERWORD VOCATION OR VACATION? TRANSATLANTIC PROFESSIONALISM NOW 181
12. NOTES 189
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 216
14. INDEX 230