Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

Author: Chapel Hill Charles Capper Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992-09-11

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0195364457

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With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the first-hand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation.


Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller

Author: Charles Capper

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2008-01-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0299223434

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Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), a pioneering gender theorist, transcendentalist, journalist, and literary critic, was one of the most well-known and highly regarded feminist intellectuals of nineteenth-century America. With her contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, she was one of the predominant writers of the Transcendentalist movement, and she aligned herself in both her public and private life with the European revolutionary fervor of the 1840s. She traveled to Italy as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune to cover the nascent revolutions, pursuing the transnational ideal awakened in her youth by a classical education in European languages and a Romantic curiosity about other cultures, traditions, and identities. This volume is a collaboration of international scholars who, from varied fields and approaches, assess Fuller’s genius and character. Treating the last several years of Margaret Fuller’s short life, these essays offer a truly international discussion of Fuller’s unique cultural, political, and personal achievements. From the origins and articulations of Fuller’s cosmopolitanism to her examination of “the woman question,” and from her fascination with the European “other” to her candid perception of imperial America from abroad, they ponder what such an extraordinary woman meant to America, and also to Italy and Europe, during her lifetime and continuing to the present.


The Lives of Margaret Fuller

The Lives of Margaret Fuller

Author: John Matteson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-01-23

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0393068056

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This is the biography of American writer, adventurer and social critic Margaret Fuller.


Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

Author: Jana L. Argersinger

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0820343390

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The first large-scale, collaborative study of women's voices and their vital role in the American transcendentalist movement. Many of its seventeen distinguished scholars work from newly recovered archives, and all offer fresh readings of understudied topics and texts, shedding light on female contributions.


Writers of the American Renaissance

Writers of the American Renaissance

Author: Denise Knight

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-12-30

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0313017077

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The American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, and our notions of the 19th-century renaissance have been reevaluated. Mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect the expanding literary canon, yet resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This book expands earlier definitions of the 19th-century American Renaissance as represented by canonical writers such as Emerson and Poe, covering writers who published popular fiction and dominated the literary marketplace of the day. Included is generous coverage of women writers and writers of color. The volume provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 writers of the period, including Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and many more. Each entry was written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.


Handbook of American Romanticism

Handbook of American Romanticism

Author: Philipp Löffler

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-07-05

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 3110590905

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The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.


Legacy of a Southern Lady

Legacy of a Southern Lady

Author: Ann Ratliff Russell

Publisher: Clemson University Press

Published: 2018-05-19

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1638041415

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“Anna Calhoun Clemson was John C. Calhoun’s favorite child. After reading Ann Russell’s biography based on Anna’s letters, one finds it easy to understand why. The product of a famous family and an exceptional woman, Anna was also, as Russell ably demonstrates, very much “a southern lady.” Her story—her “life’s journey,” as Calhoun told his daughter her life would be–gives us a glimpse of an important southern family, of southern womanhood, of heartbreak and difficulty, of a nation torn apart by sectional conflict. Like Mary Chesnut’s famous diary, Anna’s letters, the crux of Russell’s study, provide us with a rich, detailed picture of southern life, both personal and public.”


Lives and Times

Lives and Times

Author: Blaine T. Browne

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2010-05-16

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 144220558X

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Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major historical issue or event. Written in a narrative style, this text offers students new and intriguing perspectives about major issues in the nation's political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history.


Spirit Leads, The

Spirit Leads, The

Author:

Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Published:

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1558965866

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Commemorates the bicentennial of Margaret Fuller's birth with a dynamic collection of excerpts from her writings. Includes an overview of Fuller's life and legacy and a list of recommended resources. A contemporary of Emerson and Thoreau and a leading public intellectual of her time, Margaret Fuller, a lifelong Unitarian, has yet to be elevated by history to the status of her peers. But her impact on the leading Transcendentalists of the day as a religious radical, political revolutionary, social reformer and forceful advocate of women's rights remains significant, even today. In addition to serving as editor of the Transcendentalist magazine, the Dial, and writing her manifesto Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Fuller was a transnational, cosmopolitan figure whose work and influence transcend the provincialism of New England and nineteenth-century American culture.


Women's Rights in the United States [4 volumes]

Women's Rights in the United States [4 volumes]

Author: Tiffany K. Wayne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 1468

ISBN-13: 1610692152

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A comprehensive encyclopedia tracing the history of the women's rights movement in the United States from the American Revolution to the present day. Few realize that the origin of the discussion on women's rights emerged out of the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century, and that suffragists were active in the peace and labor movements long after the right to vote was granted. Thus began the confluence of activism in our country, where the rights of women both followed—and led—the social and political discourse in America. Through 4 volumes and more than 800 entries, editor Tiffany K. Wayne, with advising editor Lois Banner, examine the issues, people, and events of women's activism, from the early period of American history to the present time. This comprehensive reference not only traces the historical evolution of the movement, but also covers current issues affecting women, such as reproductive freedom, political participation, pay equity, violence against women, and gay civil rights.