Margaret Fuller : transatlantic crossings in a revolutionary age / edited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli ; foreword by Lester K. Little.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capper, Charles.

Giorcelli, Cristina.

Little, Lester K.

Series:

Studies in American thought and culture.

Studies in American thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850--Criticism and interpretation.

Fuller, Margaret.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850--Homes and haunts--Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Margaret Fuller's American transnational odyssey / Charles Capper

Playing the eclectic : Margaret Fuller's creative appropriation of Goethe / Joseph C. Schopp

Margaret Fuller and the ideal of heroism / Robert N. Hudspeth

Margaret Fuller and the search for the maternal / Anna Scacchi

Mutual interpretation : Margaret Fuller's journey to Rome / Bell Gale Chevigny

The unbroken charm : Margaret Fuller, G.S. Hillard, and the American tradition of travel writing on Italy / John Paul Russo

Realism, idealism, and passion in Margaret Fuller's 'Italy' / Francesco Guida

Righteous violence : the Roman Republic and Margaret Fuller's revolutionary example / Larry J. Reynolds

A humbug, a bounder, and a dabbler : Margaret Fuller and/as Cristina di Belgioioso / Cristina Giorcelli

Margaret Fuller on stage / Maria Anita Stefanelli

Documents in the State Archive of Rome / Donato Tamble

Biographies / Cristina Giorcelli

Chronology / Cristina Giorcelli.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612255892

9780299223434

0299223434

9781282255890

1282255894

OCLC:

318454837

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08788 hdl