Margaret Fuller

by Capper, Charles; Giorcelli, Cristina; Little, Lester K.

• ISBN13: 9780299223403
• ISBN10: 029922340X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-19
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Margaret Fuller (18101850), 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 Fullerrs"s genius and character. Treating the last several years of Margaret Fullerrs"s short life, these essays offer a truly international discussion of Fullerrs"s unique cultural, political, and personal achievements. From the origins and articulations of Fullerrs"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.

Author Biography

Charles Capper is professor of history at Boston University and author of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, volume 1, The Private Years, and volume 2, The Public Years. He is coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition and the journal Modern Intellectual History. Cristina Giorcelli is professor of American literature at the University of Rome Three and has published extensively on nineteenth-century fiction and on Modernist poetry. She cofounded and codirects the quarterly journal Letterature d’America.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Transnational Crossings
Getting from Here to There: Margaret Fuller's American Transnational Odyssey	p. 3
Playing the Eclectic: Margaret Fuller's Creative Appropriation of Goethe	p. 27
Margaret Fuller and the Ideal of Heroism	p. 45
Margaret Fuller's Search for the Maternal	p. 66
Italy as Text and Context
Mutual Interpretation: Margaret Fuller's Journeys in Italy	p. 99
The Unbroken Charm: Margaret Fuller, G. S. Hillard, and the American Tradition of Travel Writing on Italy	p. 124
Realism, Idealism, and Passion in Margaret Fuller's Response to Italy	p. 156
Righteous Violence: The Roman Republic and Margaret Fuller's Revolutionary Example	p. 172
European/American Others
A Humbug, a Bounder, and a Dabbler: Margaret Fuller, Cristina di Belgioioso, and Christina Casamassima	p. 195
Margaret Fuller on the Stage	p. 221
Documents in the State Archive of Rome	p. 241
Biographies	p. 251
Chronology	p. 259
Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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