Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life

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Oxford University Press, 1994-11-03 - 456 psl.
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.

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1 A New England Inheritance
3
2 Childhood Enlightenment
24
3 Rustication
57
4 Cambridge Renaissance
84
5 A Tangled Pastoral
121
6 Apprenticeship
160
7 The Schoolmistress
206
Illustrations
208
8 Conversations
252
9 The Transcendentalist
307
Abbreviations
351
Notes
357
Index
407
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Charles Capper is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is co-editor of The American Intellectual Tradition.

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