1. Transcedental Editor -- 2. Romantic Recoveries -- 3. Liberal Awakenings -- 4. Virgin Lands -- 5. Concords and Discords -- 6. New York Star -- 7. Young America's Critic -- 8. Ambassador of the World -- 9. Risorgimento 10. Year of Revolutions -- 11. Foreign Correspondence -- 12. States of Siege -- 13. Florence Exile -- 14. Dark Passages.
Summary:
The long-awaited conclusion to the definitive biography of Margaret Fuller. Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize and praised in The Nation as the richest account we have yet of Fullers formative years, the first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life was acclaimed by critics and scholars alike as the finest portrait available of Fullers early life. Now, in the much-anticipated sequel, Charles Capper illuminates Fullers ”public years,” focusing on her struggles to establish her identity as an influential intellectual woman in the Romantic Age. Capper brings to life Fullers dramatic mixture of inward struggles, intimate social life, and deep engagements with the major movements of her time--from outr ̌Boston Transcendentalism to contentious New York journalism and European revolutionary ideas. Capper describes how Fuller struggled to reconcile high avant-garde cultural ideals and Romantic critical methods with democratic social and political commitments, and he reveals how she strove to articulate--through the lens of American idealism and European ”experience”--a cosmopolitan vision for her nations culture and politics. Capper also sheds light on Fullers complex personal life. He offers fresh and often startlingly new treatments of Fullers friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Giuseppe Mazzini and provides new insights into such badly understood intimates as the shadowy James Nathan, the poetic genius Adam Mickiewicz, and Fullers Roman lover Giovanni Ossoli. Readers will also find lively portraits of many other famous figures with whom Fuller associated, including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace Greeley, Lydia Maria Child, George Sand, and Robert and Elizabeth Browning. Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of Americas most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written and one of the great biographies in American history. Also includes information on African Americans, Amos Bronson Alcott, antislavery and abolitionism, William Henry Channing, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, Horace Greeley, Paul Harro Harring, Risorgimento of Italy, Franz Liszt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, James Nathan, New York City, Angelo Eugene Philip Ossoli, Nicholas Oudinot, Theodore Parker, Pope Pius IX, Edgar Allan Poe, Roman Catholicism, Roman Republic, Romanticism, Rome, socialism, Marcus Spring, Rebecca Spring, Emelyn Eldridge Story, William Wetmore Story, Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Transcendentalism, Anna Barker Ward, Samuel Gray Ward, women, etc.
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