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Fleischmann, Fritz (ed.)
Margaret Fuller's Cultural Critique
Her Age and Legacy
Series: Early American Literature and Culture Through the American Renaissance - Volume 3
Year of Publication: 2000
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2000. XIII, 277 pp., 6 ill.
ISBN 978-0-8204-3952-5 hardback
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Weight: 0.510 kg, 1.124 lbs
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Book synopsis
A century and a half after her death, Margaret Fuller is recognized as «America's female intellectual prophet» (Charles Capper), a thinker of stunning acumen and foresight-feminist theoretician of gender and culture, literary and social critic, foreign correspondent, teacher, writer, revolutionist. The essays in this volume discuss her «seven practices» of cultural critique, her feminism as a road not taken, the twentieth-century life of her ideas, and her relationships with Lydia Maria Child, Julia Ward Howe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; they contain analyses of language, perception, and voice, Fuller's travel writing at home and abroad, and her brother Arthur's editing practices. The broad range of biographical and critical scholarship assembled in this book contributes to the growing comprehension of Fuller's pioneering life and work.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Editor: Fritz Fleischmann is Professor of English at Babson College. He is the author of A Right View of the Subject: Feminism in the Works of Charles Brockden Brown and John Neal, editor of American Novelists Revisited: Essays in Feminist Criticism, co-editor (with Deborah Lucas Schneider) of Women's Studies and Literature and (with Klaus H. Schmidt) of Early America Re-Explored (Peter Lang, 2000).
Reviews
«This is a collection of consistently illuminating essays. Margaret Fuller emerges in these pages as a powerful foremother of modern feminism, as an early and astute critic of colonialist projects, and as a major voice in United States intellectual history. Fuller's range, like these essays, is breathtaking.» (Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona)
«'Margaret Fuller's Cultural Critique' is a remarkably 'diverse' book, which is what we need to understand someone like Fuller; the essays gathered here present Fuller in her relationships, her legacies, her travels, and her modes of speaking and writing. Fuller's extraordinary legacies deserve such a book and are illuminated by it.» (Lawrence Rosenwald, Wellesley College)
Series
Early American Literature and Culture through the American Renaissance. Vol. 3
General Editor: Reiner Smolinski