The Letters of Margaret Fuller : 1842-1844 / Margaret Fuller; Robert N. Hudspeth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Margaret, author.

Contributor:

Hudspeth, Robert N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 Günderode; 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EDITORIAL METHOD

EDITORIAL APPARATUS

1842

1843

1844

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501725197

150172519X

OCLC:

1083593429