Research Catalog

Title

Margaret Fuller : transatlantic crossings in a revolutionary age / edited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli ; foreword by Lester K. Little.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2007], ©2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Capper, Charles.
• Giorcelli, Cristina.
• Little, Lester K.

Description

xviii, 281 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), 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 Fuller's genius and character. Treating the last several years of Margaret Fuller's short life, these essays offer a truly international discussion of her unique cultural, political, and personal achievements." "From the origins and articulations of Fuller'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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies in American thought and culture

Uniform Title

Studies in American thought and culture.

Subjects

• Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 > Criticism and interpretation
• Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 > Homes and haunts > Italy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Lester K. Little -- Preface / Charles Capper -- I. Transnational Crossings -- 1. Getting from Here to There: Margaret Fuller's American Transnational Odyssey / Charles Capper -- 2. Playing the Eclectic: Margaret Fuller's Creative Appropriation of Goethe / Joseph C. Schopp -- 3. Margaret Fuller and the Ideal of Heroism / Robert N. Hudspeth -- 4. Margaret Fuller's Search for the Maternal / Anna Scacchi -- II. Italy as Text and Context -- 5. Mutual Interpretation: Margaret Fuller's Journeys in Italy / Bell Gale Chevigny -- 6. The Unbroken Charm: Margaret Fuller, G. S. Hillard, and the American Tradition of Travel Writing on Italy / John Paul Russo -- 7. Realism, Idealism, and Passion in Margaret Fuller's Response to Italy / Francesco Guida -- 8. Righteous Violence: The Roman Republic and Margaret Fuller's Revolutionary Example / Larry J. Reynolds -- III. European/American Others -- 9. A Humbug, a Bounder, and a Dabbler: Margaret Fuller, Cristina di Belgioioso, and Christina Casamassima / Cristina Giorcelli -- 10. Margaret Fuller on the Stage / Maria Anita Stefanelli -- App. Documents in the State Archive of Rome / Donato Tamble -- Biographies / Cristina Giorcelli -- Chronology / Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli.

ISBN

• 029922340X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780299223403 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007011771
• 40014890363

OCLC

• 123390889
• ocn123390889
• SCSB-5381944

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries