Margaret Fuller : a brief biography with documents / Eve Kornfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kornfeld, Eve.

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

The Bedford series in history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.

Women authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford Books, [1997]

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

Contents:

Part I Minerva and the Muse

1 A Question of Identity

2 Childhood and Education

3 Spiritual Crisis and Vision

4 Inside and Outside Transcendentalism

5 Turning "All to Muse"

6 New York and Europe

7 Conclusion: Margaret Fuller's Legacy

Part II The Documents

8 Early Letters and "Autobiographical Sketch"

1 To Timothy Fuller

2 To Margarett C. Fuller

3 To Timothy Fuller

4 To Susan Prescott

5 To Almira P. Barlow

6 To Jane F. Tuckerman

7 To Caroline Sturgis

8 To A. Bronson Alcott

9 To Ralph Waldo Emerson [?]

10 To Frederic H. Hedge

11 To William H. Channing

12 To Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 To William H. Channing [?]

14 To William H. Channing [?]

15 To Sophia Ripley [?]

16 To [?]

17 To Elizabeth Hoar

18 Autobiographical Sketch

9 Dial Essays and Meditations

19 Goethe

20 Leila

21 Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Gunderode

10 Summer on the Lakes

22 Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

11 The Poetry of 1844

23 Leila in the Arabian Zone

24 Winged Sphynx

25 Double Triangle, Serpent and Rays

12 Woman in the Nineteenth Century

26 Women in the Nineteenth Century

13 New York Journalism

27 Emerson's Essays

28 George Sand's Consuelo

29 Our City Charities

30 Prevalent Idea That Politeness Is Too Great a Luxury to Be Given to the Poor

31 Lyceum of New-Bedford, Massachusetts

32 What Fits a Man to Be a Voter? Is It to Be White Within, or White Without?

14 European Dispatches and Letters

Things and Thoughts in Europe

33 No. XXIII. [A Revolutionary Spring]

34 No. XXVI. [The Birth of the Roman Republic]

35 No. XXXIII. [Rome under Siege]

36 Italy. [Prophecies]

The Last Letters of Margaret Fuller

37 To Caroline Sturgis Tappan

38 To Margarett C. Fuller

39 To Caroline Sturgis Tappan

40 To Margaret C. Fuller

15 Contemporary Responses to Fuller

41 James Freemen Clarke [Review of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843]

42 Orestes A. Brownson [Review of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843]

43 Lydia Maria Child, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

44 Edgar Allen Poe, "Sarah Margaret Fuller"

45 James Russell Lowell [Miranda]

46 Henry James [The Margaret-Ghost].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312163878

0312120095

OCLC:

36379021