| Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life Contributor(s): Capper, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195092678 ISBN-13: 9780195092677 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1994 Annotation: First in a 2-part biography of 19th-century transcendentalist and feminist leader. Based on a thorough examination of first-hand sources, this book focuses on Fuller's difficult identity as a female intellectual during her gradual but fascinating emergence from private life. "Eminently readable".--Women's Review of Books. 30 photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 91032599 |
| Lexile Measure: 1420 |
| Series: Margaret Fuller an American Romantic Life |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.1" W x 9.16" (1.38 lbs) 456 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the firsthand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's private years: her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the private life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation. |