Margaret Fuller Vol. 1: An American Romantic Life - The Private Years

Author/creator Capper, Charles Author
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Description456 p. ill 09.560 x 06.440 in.
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Summary Annotation 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 first-hand sources, many of themnever 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--andpresents 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, tothe 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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Awards noteBancroft Prize (won), 1993
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 91032599
ISBN9780195045796
ISBN0195045793 (Trade Cloth) On Demand
Standard identifier# 9780195045796
Stock number00020142

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