Author: Margaret FullerPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Volume Two. -- "The New York Times Book Review"
The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1839-41
Author: Margaret FullerPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Volume Two. -- "The New York Times Book Review"
The Letters of Margaret Fuller
Author: Margaret FullerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725238
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This second volume publishes all of Margaret Fuller's letters written from 1839 to 1841—the years in which she first began to achieve fame as a writer and an editor. Addressed to such eminent figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William H. Channing, Elizabeth Peabody, and Frederic H. hedge as well as to Fuller's family and intimate friends, these letters record the years of her involvement in the Transcendentalist Club—a group of liberal clergymen and writers who gathered to discuss theology, literature, and philosophy. In 1839 the Club decided to found a magazine, The Dial; Fuller became the editor, and at last she had a forum for her innovative views of literature and of literary criticism. These are also the years of her famous "conversations" for women—weekly discussions of mythology which were attended by twenty-five of the most prominent women in the area. The letters chronicle the most emotionally turbulent period in her life. In the course of little more than a year she was rejected by the man she loved, Samuel G. Ward, who then married her close friend Anna Barker; she was rebuffed by Emerson as well; and she underwent a profound religious experience that she felt changed her life.
The Lives of Margaret Fuller
Author: John MattesonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393068056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This is the biography of American writer, adventurer and social critic Margaret Fuller.
The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1850 and undated
Author: Margaret FullerPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Volume Six. -- "The New York Times Book Review"
Margaret Fuller
Author: Charles CapperPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199762341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
The Measure of Greatness
Author: Sophia VasalouPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192577174
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle's account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most distinctive elements of the ancient tradition to filter into the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds. It sparked important intellectual engagements and went on to carve deep tracks through several of the later philosophies to inherit from this tradition. Under changing names and reworked forms, it would continue to breathe in the thought of Descartes and Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche. Its many lives have been joined by important continuities, yet they have also been fragmented by discontinuities -- discontinuities reflecting larger shifts in ethical perspectives and competing answers to questions about the nature of the good life, the moral nature of human beings, and their relationship to the social and natural world they inhabit. They have also been punctuated by moments of intense controversy in which the vision of human greatness has itself been called into doubt. The aim of this volume is to provide an insight into the complex trajectory of a virtue whose glitter has at times been as dazzling as it has been divisive. By exploring the many lives it has lived, we will be in a better position to evaluate whether this is a virtue we still want to make central to our own ethical lives, and why.
Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860
Author: Sharon M. HarrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317105583
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This volume illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural developments. Rejecting the common categorization of letters as primarily private documents, this collection of essays demonstrates the genre's persistent public engagements with changing cultural dynamics of the revolutionary, early republican, and antebellum eras. Sections of the collection treat letters' implication in transatlanticism, authorship, and reform movements as well as the politics and practices of editing letters. The wide range of authors considered include Mercy Otis Warren, Charles Brockden Brown, members of the Emerson and Peabody families, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Stoddard, Catherine Brown, John Brown, and Harriet Jacobs. The volume is particularly relevant for researchers in U.S. literature and history, as well as women's writing and periodical studies. This dynamic collection offers scholars an exemplary template of new approaches for exploring an understudied yet critically important literary genre.
The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the 20th Century: 1900-1929
Author: Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579582906
Category : Arts, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Reviews, news articles, interviews and essays capturing 100 years of art, architecture, literature, music, dance, theater, film and television.
Humanities
Author: Listening Well
Author: Ora Frishberg SalomanPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433103575
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The twelve essays in Listening Well illuminate aesthetic, educative, and evaluative strategies utilized by writers in Paris, Boston, and New York to guide listeners in confronting the challenges of musical modernity between 1764 and 1890. They interpret criticism from treatises, journals, and newspapers for its importance in cultural history and consider the reception of major works by Beethoven and by Berlioz. The essays explore contrasting responses to new operas and symphonies by composers, librettists, authors, critics, and conductors as well as by writers including Chabanon, Lacépède, Berlioz, Urhan, D'Ortigue, Dwight, Fuller, Watson, and Hassard. Readers interested in perceptions of Classicism and Romanticism in music as they relate to French, German, and American literature and criticism will discover how audiences on both sides of the Atlantic were encouraged to listen attentively to the new and controversial in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.