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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.
Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written and one of the great biographies in American history. In Volume II, Charles Capper illuminates Fuller's "public years," focusing on her struggles to establish her identity as an influential intellectual woman in the Romantic Age. Capper brings to life Fuller's dramatic mixture of inward struggles, intimate social life, and deep engagements with the major movements of her time. He describes how Fuller struggled to reconcile high avant-garde cultural ideals and Romantic critical methods with democratic social and political commitments, and he reveals how she strove to articulate a cosmopolitan vision for her nation's culture and politics. Capper also offers fresh and often startlingly new treatments of Fuller's friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Giuseppe Mazzini and many others.
Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize and praised in The Nation as "the
richest account we have yet of Fuller's formative years," the first
volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life was acclaimed
by critics and scholars alike as the finest portrait available of
Fuller's early life. Now, in the much-anticipated sequel, Charles
Capper illuminates Fuller's "public years," focusing on her
struggles to establish her identity as an influential intellectual
woman in the Romantic Age.
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 firsthand 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.
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 firsthand 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.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars, this insightful collection provides the best recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New England religious reformers and intellectuals who challenged both spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s. The volume addresses Transcendentalism from many directions, illuminating the movement more clearly than ever before. The contributions consider aspects of the relationship between the Transcendentalists and their intellectual and social world, assess the movement's cultural legacy, and place Transcendentalism in the context of historical and literary scholarship, past and present.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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