Margaret Fuller : A Brief Biography with Documents,9780312120092

Margaret Fuller : A Brief Biography with Documents

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780312120092
ISBN10: 0312120095
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-12-15
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

The first brief biography with documents of an important nineteenth-century American feminist, literary figure and journalist, a revolutionary abroad and a major writer of the American Renaissance at home. This account contains also selections from her private letters and published poetry, books, literary criticism and journalism. There is a substantial introduction

Author Biography

Eve Kornfeld (Ph. D., Harvard University) is professor of history at San Diego State University. A specialist in American cultural history, gender in American culture, and poststructuralist and feminist theory, she has published numerous articles in journals such as the William and Mary Quarterly and the Journal of American Studies. She held one of the first fellowships in the American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities Project and is active in the effort to bring interdisciplinary perspectives to the attention of K-12 teachers. In 1988, Kornfeld received the Timeos Award of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society for excellence in teaching.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Preface vii
PART ONE Minerva and the Muse 1(76)
A Question of Identity
3(3)
Childhood and Education
6(8)
Spiritual Crisis and Vision
14(5)
Inside and Outside Transcendentalism
19(19)
Turning ``All to Mouse''
38(13)
New York and Europe
51(16)
Conclusion: Margaret Fuller's Legacy
67(10)
PART TWO The Documents 77(170)
Early Letters and ``Autobiographical Sketch''
79(31)
To Timothy Fuller
79(2)
To Margarett C. Fuller
81(1)
To Timothy Fuller
82(2)
To Susan Prescott
84(1)
To Almira P. Barlow
85(2)
To Jane F. Tuckerman
87(1)
To Caroline Sturgis
88(1)
To A. Bronson Alcott
89(1)
To Ralph Waldo Emerson [?]
90(1)
To Frederic H. Hedge
91(1)
To William H. Channing
92(1)
To Ralph Waldo Emerson
93(1)
To William H. Channing [?]
94(1)
To William H. Channing [?]
95(2)
To Sophia Ripley [?]
97(2)
To [?]
99(1)
To Elizabeth Hoar
100(1)
Autobiographical Sketch
100(10)
Dial Essays and Meditations
110(14)
Goethe
110(3)
Leila
113(6)
Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Gunderode
119(5)
Summer on the Lakes
124(29)
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
124(29)
The Poetry of 1844
153(3)
Leila in the Arabian Zone
153(1)
Winged Sphynx
154(1)
Double Triangle, Serpent and Rays
155(1)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
156(36)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
156(36)
New York Journalism
192(17)
Emerson's Essays
192(5)
George Sand's Consuelo
197(1)
Our City Charities
198(4)
Prevalent Idea That Politeness Is Too Great a Luxury to Be Given to the Poor
202(2)
Lyceum of New-Bedford, Massachusetts
204(1)
What Fits a Man to Be a Voter? Is It to Be White Within, or White Without?
205(4)
European Dispatches and Letters
209(20)
Things and Thoughts in Europe
209(1)
No. XXIII. [A Revolutionary Spring]
209(4)
No. XXVI. [The Birth of the Roman Republic]
213(5)
No. XXXIII. [Rome under Siege]
218(3)
Italy. [Prophecies]
221(3)
The Last Letters of Margaret Fuller
224(1)
To Caroline Sturgis Tappan
224(1)
To Margarett C. Fuller
224(3)
To Caroline Sturgis Tappan
227(1)
To Margarett C. Fuller
228(1)
Contemporary Responses to Fuller
229(18)
James Freeman Clarke [Review of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843]
229(1)
Orestes A. Brownson [Review of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843]
230(1)
Lydia Maria Child ``Woman in the Nineteenth Century''
231(1)
Edgar Allan Poe ``Sarah Margaret Fuller''
232(1)
James Russell Lowell [Miranda]
233(2)
Henry James [The Margaret-Ghost]
235(3)
APPENDICES
A Fuller Chronology (1810--1850)
238(2)
Questions for Consideration
240(1)
Selected Bibliography
241(6)
Index 247

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