Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Norton Critical Editions)

by Fuller, Margaret; Reynolds, Larry J.

• ISBN13: 9780393971576
• ISBN10: 0393971570
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations. "Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through autobiographical writings and selections from Fuller's recently published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations." "Criticism and Reviews" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Orestes A. Brownson, A. G. M, Lydia Maria Child, Frederic Dan Huntington, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Lane, George Eliot, Margaret Vanderhaar Allen, David M. Robinson, Bell Gale Chevigny, Julie Ellison, Christina Zwarg, and Jeffery Steele. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	ix
The Text of Woman in the Nineteenth Century	1	(138)
Note on the Text	137	(2)
Backgrounds	139	(74)
Margaret Fuller	143	(47)
[Autobiographical Romance]	143	(18)
[Mariana]	161	(7)
Leila	168	(5)
From Letter to Sophia Ripley, August 27, 1839	173	(1)
From Boston Conversations: The 1839-1840 Series	174	(7)
[From 1842 Journal]	181	(8)
From Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (October 16, 1842)	189	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret	190	(2)
Margaret Fuller	192	(15)
[From 1844 Journal]	192	(12)
Letter to Elizabeth Hoar (October 1844)	204	(1)
Letter to the Women Inmates at Sing Sing (early November[?] 1844)	205	(1)
From Letter to William H. Channing (November 17, 1844)	206	(1)
Caroline Sturgis From Letter to Margaret Fuller (March 4, 1845)	207	(1)
Margaret Fuller From Letter to Caroline Sturgis (March 13, 1845)	208	(5)
Criticism	213	(86)
EARLY REVIEWS	213	(22)
Orestes A. Brownson
Miss Fuller and Reformers	213	(3)
A. G. M. [Anonymous]
The Condition of Woman	216	(4)
Lydia Maria Child
Woman in the Nineteenth Century	220	(1)
Frederic Dan Huntington
[Noble and Stirring Eloquence]	221	(2)
Edgar A. Poe
The Literati of New York City - No. IV: Sarah Margaret Fuller	223	(4)
C[harles]. L[ane]
[A Chaste and Honorable Book]	227	(4)
Anonymous
Stray Leaves from a Seamstress's Journal - No. 5	231	(1)
George Eliot
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft	232	(3)
RECENT ESSAYS	235	(64)
Margaret Vanderhaar Allen
[A Classic of Feminist Literature]	235	(8)
David M. Robinson
Margaret Fuller and the Transcendental Ethos: Woman in the Nineteenth Century	243	(14)
Bell Gale Chevigny
To the Edges of Ideology: Margaret Fuller's Centrifugal Evolution	257	(7)
Julie Ellison
"A Crowd of Books to Sigh Over": Fuller's Method	264	(8)
Christina Zwarg
Fuller's Scene before the Women: Woman in the Nineteenth Century	272	(6)
Jeffrey Steele
Margaret Fuller's Rhetoric of Transformation	278	(21)
Margaret Fuller: A Chronology	299	(2)
Selected Bibliography	301