Margaret Fuller An American Romantic Life Volume II: The Public Years

by Capper, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195396324
• ISBN10: 0195396324
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written, and one of the great biographies in American history. In Volume II, Charles Capper illuminates Fuller's "public years," focusing on her struggles to establish her identity as an influential intellectual woman in the Romantic Age. He brings to life Fuller's dramatic mixture of inward struggles, intimate social life, and deep engagements with the movements of her time. He describes how Fuller struggled to reconcile high avant-garde cultural ideals and Romantic critical methods with democratic social and political commitments, and how she strove to articulate a cosmopolitan vision for her nation's culture and politics. Capper also offers fresh and often startlingly new treatments of Fuller's friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Giuseppe Mazzini, in addition to many others.

Author Biography

Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University. In addition to writing the acclaimed first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, he is the coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition and the journal Modern Intellectual History.

Table of Contents

Preface

Transcedental Editor

Romantic Recoveries

Liberal Awakenings

Virgin Lands

Concords and Discords

New York Star

Young America's Critic

Ambassador of the World

Risorgimento

Year of Revolutions

Foreign Correspondence

States of Siege

Florence Exile

Dark Passages

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

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