Name: the letters of margaret fuller: 1845-1847
SKU: 19104826
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Author: Fuller, Margaret ; Hudspeth, Robert N.
ISBN: 9780801419720

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the letters of margaret fuller: 1845-1847

Type

Physical Book

Author

Margaret Fuller

Illustrated by

Robert N. Hudspeth

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Year

1987

Language

English

Pages

330

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4x15.6x1.9 cm

Weight

0.62 kg.

ISBN

0801419727

ISBN13

9780801419720

Synopsis "the letters of margaret fuller: 1845-1847"

From 1844 to 1847 Margaret Fuller served as review editor for Horace Greeley's New-York Herald Tribune--and herself reviewed books by Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville among others--and published Papers on Literature and Art, a volume of her own essays. She became known as something of a radical in literary circles, allying herself with George Sand, Emerson, and Goethe, and with the Young America poets, Evert A. Duyckinck, Cornelius Mathews, and William Gilmore Simms. In August 1846 Fuller left for Europe with her friends Marcus and Rebecca Spring. Her letters describe her meetings there with Thomas Carlyle, George Sand, Lamennais, and the aging Wordsworth, and with such political figures as the exiles Giuseppe Mazzini and Adam Mickiewicz. Often the letters expand upon topics addressed in her public writing.Her life in these years, however, is dominated by her love for the German businessman James Nathan. The nearly fifty letters she wrote to him in 1845 and 1846 show her startling willingness to take a subservient role and her longing for emotional acceptance. Dreams of a lasting relationship with Nathan end in Europe with his betrothal to another woman, but by the spring of 1847 she had recovered from her deep disappointment and gone on to achieve great personal growth, both in her consciousness of herself as a woman and in political awareness. By the time this volume comes to a close she has met Giovanni Ossoli, a man who shares her ideals and offers her emotional security.

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