The Portable Margaret Fuller (Viking Portable Library) - Softcover

Fuller, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140176659 ISBN 13: 9780140176650

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

An anthology of the writings of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), American editor, essayist, poet, teacher and author. An associate of Emerson, Thoreau and William Henry Channing at the Brook Farm Community in Massachusetts, Fuller edited the transcendentalist journal "The Dial", and became the first woman journalist for the "New York Tribune". This book includes the texts "Summer on the Lakes" and "Women in the Nineteenth Century" in their entirety, a selection of criticisms, her despatches from Italy for Horace Greeley during the Italian Revolution, and selected correspondence. Mary Kelley has edited and prefaced the collection with a critical introduction, and provided chronology and notes.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Mattson Bean is associate professor of English at Texas Woman's University in Denton and has published numerous articles on Fuller.

Joel Myerson, Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina, has published the standard primary and secondary bibliographies of Fuller. A past president of the Association for Documentary Editing, the Thoreau Society, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, he is currently president of the Margaret Fuller Society.

Mary Kelley is a Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Among her most recent books are "The Portable Margaret Fuller" and "The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick".

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140176659
• ISBN 13: 9780140176650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576