Margaret Fuller
An American Romantic Life: Volume II: The Public Years
Published on 8. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
672 pages
978-0-19-539632-4 (ISBN)
Description
Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written and one of the great biographies in American history. In Volume II, Charles Capper illuminates Fuller's "public years," focusing on her struggles to establish her identity as an influential intellectual woman in the Romantic Age. Capper brings to life Fuller's dramatic mixture of inward struggles, intimate social life, and deep engagements with the major movements of her time. He describes how Fuller struggled to reconcile high avant-garde cultural ideals and Romantic critical methods with democratic social and political commitments, and he reveals how she strove to articulate a cosmopolitan vision for her nation's culture and politics. Capper also offers fresh and often startlingly new treatments of Fuller's friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Giuseppe Mazzini and many others.
Reviews / Votes
Superb. * Christopher Benfey, New York Review of Books * With this second volume, Capper has established his preeminent position as the authority on Fuller....This is a triumph of great intellectual achievement, displaying an amazing depth of knowledge and admirable research * Sally G. McMillen, Reviews in American History * Capper's book makes us see that Fuller was finally not a romantic heroine but a historical creature, endowed with extraordinary capacities for making a place for herself.... Charles Capper finally brings Margaret Fuller back home, reclaiming her and her immense intelligence for America. * Christine Stansell, The New Republic * This long-awaited second volume of Capper's Bancroft Prize-winning biography of Fuller fulfills all expectations .... Capper has crafted both an intimate life and a subtle analysis of Fuller's work * Publishers Weekly * Capper's magnificent biography restores Fuller as a transnational citizen of the liberal Atlantic world and as the first great American champion of cosmopolitan avant-garde culture * Mary Loeffelholz, Boston Globe *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
36 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
964 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-539632-4 (9780195396324)
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Person
Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University. In addition to writing the acclaimed first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, he is the coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition and the journal Modern Intellectual History.
Content
Preface ; 1. Transcedental Editor ; 2. Romantic Recoveries ; 3. Liberal Awakenings ; 4. Virgin Lands ; 5. Concords and Discords ; 6. New York Star ; 7. Young America's Critic ; 8. Ambassador of the World ; 9. Risorgimento ; 10. Year of Revolutions ; 11. Foreign Correspondence ; 12. States of Siege ; 13. Florence Exile ; 14. Dark Passages ; Abbreviations ; Notes ; Index