Synopses & Reviews
As a well-known editor and journalist, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) questioned the conventional boundaries that circumscribed American society in the first half of the nineteenth century. This collection of her letters, essays, poems, and journalism reveals a woman who developed a feminist and humanist vision that transcended class, racial, national, and gender borders.
Synopsis
As a well-known editor and journalist, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) questioned the conventional boundaries that circumscribed American society in the first half of the nineteenth century. This collection of her letters, essays, poems, and journalism reveals a woman who developed a feminist and humanist vision that transcended class, racial, national, and gender borders.
About the Author
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 Preface
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]
APPENDICES
A Fuller Chronology (1810-1850)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index