Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (New England in the World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611683459 ISBN 13: 9781611683455

Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press, 2013

Synopsis

These essays mark the maturation of scholarship on Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), one of the most important public intellectuals of the nineteenth century and a writer whose works have been much revived in recent decades. The authors-leading scholars of Fuller, Transcendentalism, and the antebellum period-consider anew Fuller the critic, the journalist, the reformer, the traveler, and the social and cultural observer, and make fresh contributions to the study of her life and work. Drawing on developments in gender theory, transatlantic studies, and archival excavations of the networks of reform, this volume defines Fuller as a significant intellectual precursor, a critic who analyzed and challenged the dominant interpretive paradigms of her own time and who remains strikingly relevant for ours.

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Review:

"Filled with acute insights and marked by a complexity of critical argument, this collection illuminates Fuller's participation in several cultural movements in her own time and offers striking commentary on her role as a significant precursor for later developments in feminism and social reform.... Highly Recommended."-- Choice

About the Author:

Brigitte Bailey is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA. Katheryn P. Viens is research coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society, USA. Conrad Edick Wright is the Worthington C. Ford Editor and director of research at the Massachusetts Historical Society, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1611683459
• ISBN 13: 9781611683455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Bailey Brigitte, Viens Katheryn P., Wright Conrad Edick