Overview

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.

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-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)

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The Editor: Fritz Fleischmann is Professor of English at Babson College. He is the author of <i>A Right View of the Subject: Feminism in the Works of Charles Brockden Brown and John Neal, </i> editor of <i>American Novelists Revisited: Essays in Feminist Criticism, </i> co-editor (with Deborah Lucas Schneider) of <i>Women s Studies and Literature</i> and (with Klaus H. Schmidt) of <i>Early America Re-Explored</i> (Peter Lang, 2000).

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