Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic LifeOxford 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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... essays eagerly and easily associate virtue and practical effort, reason and good taste. They are written in the highly stilted, Latinate style that marred his public and, to a large extent, private, writing 8 Margaret Fuller.
... essays eagerly and easily associate virtue and practical effort, reason and good taste. They are written in the highly stilted, Latinate style that marred his public and, to a large extent, private, writing 8 Margaret Fuller.
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... reason to think, I appeared, what I have, so long wished, amiable." It was clearly never easy. Besides his social awkwardness, this stagecoach incident suggests something elsethat Fuller liked to think of himself as a lady's man. In ...
... reason to think, I appeared, what I have, so long wished, amiable." It was clearly never easy. Besides his social awkwardness, this stagecoach incident suggests something elsethat Fuller liked to think of himself as a lady's man. In ...
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... reason might have been that for her the town's harbor was no mere metaphor. For she was born and lived most of her youth in a house, not in Old Cambridge properor "the Village" surrounding the collegebut in the town's new development ...
... reason might have been that for her the town's harbor was no mere metaphor. For she was born and lived most of her youth in a house, not in Old Cambridge properor "the Village" surrounding the collegebut in the town's new development ...
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... reason: within a little over a year, Timothy began his tutoring of Margaret. Although Julia Adelaide would probably not have made the "vast difference" in "temper[ing]" her later character that she claimed in her sketch, her presence ...
... reason: within a little over a year, Timothy began his tutoring of Margaret. Although Julia Adelaide would probably not have made the "vast difference" in "temper[ing]" her later character that she claimed in her sketch, her presence ...
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... reason was quite simple: he thought she would attain (as he told his wife) "much greater proficiency." In this thinking he was not alone. Since John Locke, numerous Enlightenment intellectuals had strongly argued that only home ...
... reason was quite simple: he thought she would attain (as he told his wife) "much greater proficiency." In this thinking he was not alone. Since John Locke, numerous Enlightenment intellectuals had strongly argued that only home ...
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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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