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Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S.
history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as
well as the value of collective social action. In the
mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how
Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world,
class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of
slavery.
Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive
anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries.
There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens,
Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel
Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical
innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on
religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature
continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century.
This single-volume selection of the letters of Margaret Fuller
invites acquaintance with a great American thinker of the
Transcendentalist circle.
The fifth volume of the collected letters of Margaret Fuller traces
a period of great emotional turbulence, reflecting the personal
struggles she faced in motherhood and the external strife of
revolutionary Europe in 1848. The book opens as she takes up
residence in Rome, where she continued to write essays for the
New-York Daily Tribune and kept up a steady flow of commentary on
the political situation for her family and friends. Among Fuller's
correspondents are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giovanni Ossoli, William
Wetmore Story, Giuseppe Mazzini, Horace Greeley, George William
Curtis, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Many of the letters were
written in Italian and are translated here for the first time.
Since Fuller was more centrally involved in the Italian
Risorgimento than any other American, they constitute an entirely
new documentary source for historians of nineteenth-century Italy.
From 1844 to 1847 Margaret Fuller served as review editor for
Horace Greeley's New-York Herald Tribune-and herself reviewed books
by Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville among others-and published
Papers on Literature and Art, a volume of her own essays. She
became known as something of a radical in literary circles, allying
herself with George Sand, Emerson, and Goethe, and with the Young
America poets, Evert A. Duyckinck, Cornelius Mathews, and William
Gilmore Simms. In August 1846 Fuller left for Europe with her
friends Marcus and Rebecca Spring. Her letters describe her
meetings there with Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Lamennais, and the
aging Wordsworth, and with such political figures as the exiles
Giuseppe Mazzini and Adam Mickiewicz. Often the letters expand upon
topics addressed in her public writing. Her life in these years,
however, is dominated by her love for the German businessman James
Nathan. The nearly fifty letters she wrote to him in 1845 and 1846
show her startling willingness to take a subservient role and her
longing for emotional acceptance. Dreams of a lasting relationship
with Nathan end in Europe with his betrothal to another woman, but
by the spring of 1847 she had recovered from her deep
disappointment and gone on to achieve great personal growth, both
in her consciousness of herself as a woman and in political
awareness. By the time this volume comes to a close she has met
Giovanni Ossoli, a man who shares her ideals and offers her
emotional security.
The third volume of this major series opens with Fuller's decision
in early 1842 to resign her post as editor of The Dial, after she
realized she would never be paid for her work there. It closes with
her in New York, having accepted Horace Greeley's invitation to
work as a book reviewer for The Daily Tribune. Her position was
nearly without precedent for a woman, and she wrote
enthusiastically of her job that it provided "a more various view
of life than any I ever before was in." She found herself in a
larger world: the new tasks of daily journalism replaced the
demands of The Dial, and a mass audience replaced her coterie of
intellectual readers. These were prolific years for Fuller, during
which she wrote on a wide variety of subjects, and the letters
chronicle her progress on a number of projects, among them her
travel book, Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, which grew out of a trip
to the Midwest; her translation of Bettina von Arnim's Die
Gunderode; and her essays on contemporary poetry, fiction, and
drama. She devoted the fall of 1844 to expanding "The Great
Lawsuit," an essay she had written for The Dial; the letters
document how the piece grew to become her most important book-Woman
in the Nineteenth Century, a provocative study of woman's role in
American life.
Correspondence by the American critic, journalist and feminist
traces her intellectual development from age seven to twenty-eight.
This second volume publishes all of Margaret Fuller's letters
written from 1839 to 1841—the years in which she first began to
achieve fame as a writer and an editor. Addressed to such eminent
figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William H.
Channing, Elizabeth Peabody, and Frederic H. hedge as well as to
Fuller's family and intimate friends, these letters record the
years of her involvement in the Transcendentalist Club—a group of
liberal clergymen and writers who gathered to discuss theology,
literature, and philosophy. In 1839 the Club decided to found a
magazine, The Dial; Fuller became the editor, and at last she had a
forum for her innovative views of literature and of literary
criticism. These are also the years of her famous "conversations"
for women—weekly discussions of mythology which were attended by
twenty-five of the most prominent women in the area. The letters
chronicle the most emotionally turbulent period in her life. In the
course of little more than a year she was rejected by the man she
loved, Samuel G. Ward, who then married her close friend Anna
Barker; she was rebuffed by Emerson as well; and she underwent a
profound religious experience that she felt changed her life.
"Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through
autobiographical writings and selections from Fuller s recently
published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations." "Criticism
and Reviews" presents a superb selection of critical writing about
the novel. The critics include Orestes A. Brownson, A. G. M, Lydia
Maria Child, Frederic Dan Huntington, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Lane,
George Eliot, Margaret Vanderhaar Allen, David M. Robinson, Bell
Gale Chevigny, Julie Ellison, Christina Zwarg, and Jeffery Steele.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included."
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