Margaret Fuller : A Brief Biography with Documents

by Kornfeld, Eve

• ISBN13: 9780312120092
• ISBN10: 0312120095
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

The first brief biography with documents of an important nineteenth-century American feminist, literary figure and journalist, a revolutionary abroad and a major writer of the American Renaissance at home. This account contains also selections from her private letters and published poetry, books, literary criticism and journalism. There is a substantial introduction

Author Biography

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	v
Preface	vii
PART ONE Minerva and the Muse	1	(76)
A Question of Identity	3	(3)
Childhood and Education	6	(8)
Spiritual Crisis and Vision	14	(5)
Inside and Outside Transcendentalism	19	(19)
Turning ``All to Mouse''	38	(13)
New York and Europe	51	(16)
Conclusion: Margaret Fuller's Legacy	67	(10)
PART TWO The Documents	77	(170)
Early Letters and ``Autobiographical Sketch''	79	(31)
To Timothy Fuller	79	(2)
To Margarett C. Fuller	81	(1)
To Timothy Fuller	82	(2)
To Susan Prescott	84	(1)
To Almira P. Barlow	85	(2)
To Jane F. Tuckerman	87	(1)
To Caroline Sturgis	88	(1)
To A. Bronson Alcott	89	(1)
To Ralph Waldo Emerson [?]	90	(1)
To Frederic H. Hedge	91	(1)
To William H. Channing	92	(1)
To Ralph Waldo Emerson	93	(1)
To William H. Channing [?]	94	(1)
To William H. Channing [?]	95	(2)
To Sophia Ripley [?]	97	(2)
To [?]	99	(1)
To Elizabeth Hoar	100	(1)
Autobiographical Sketch	100	(10)
Dial Essays and Meditations	110	(14)
Goethe	110	(3)
Leila	113	(6)
Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Gunderode	119	(5)
Summer on the Lakes	124	(29)
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843	124	(29)
The Poetry of 1844	153	(3)
Leila in the Arabian Zone	153	(1)
Winged Sphynx	154	(1)
Double Triangle, Serpent and Rays	155	(1)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century	156	(36)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century	156	(36)
New York Journalism	192	(17)
Emerson's Essays	192	(5)
George Sand's Consuelo	197	(1)
Our City Charities	198	(4)
Prevalent Idea That Politeness Is Too Great a Luxury to Be Given to the Poor	202	(2)
Lyceum of New-Bedford, Massachusetts	204	(1)
What Fits a Man to Be a Voter? Is It to Be White Within, or White Without?	205	(4)
European Dispatches and Letters	209	(20)
Things and Thoughts in Europe	209	(1)
No. XXIII. [A Revolutionary Spring]	209	(4)
No. XXVI. [The Birth of the Roman Republic]	213	(5)
No. XXXIII. [Rome under Siege]	218	(3)
Italy. [Prophecies]	221	(3)
The Last Letters of Margaret Fuller	224	(1)
To Caroline Sturgis Tappan	224	(1)
To Margarett C. Fuller	224	(3)
To Caroline Sturgis Tappan	227	(1)
To Margarett C. Fuller	228	(1)
Contemporary Responses to Fuller	229	(18)
James Freeman Clarke [Review of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843]	229	(1)
Orestes A. Brownson [Review of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843]	230	(1)
Lydia Maria Child ``Woman in the Nineteenth Century''	231	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe ``Sarah Margaret Fuller''	232	(1)
James Russell Lowell [Miranda]	233	(2)
Henry James [The Margaret-Ghost]	235	(3)
APPENDICES
A Fuller Chronology (1810--1850)	238	(2)
Questions for Consideration	240	(1)
Selected Bibliography	241	(6)
Index	247